A collaboration between researchers from the Brno University of Technology (BUT) and researchers at the HLTCOE was awarded the prize for the most  efficient, novel, or practical submission to task-2, NOTSOFAR, of the 8th edition of the CHiME challenge. Unlike other approaches, which rely on large ensembling methods, training on large amounts of synthetically overlapped speech, or are reliant on multiple microphones for beam forming, the challenge submission proposed a simple means of repurposing existing ASR systems, such as Whisper, to perform target-speaker ASR by conditioning on the outputs of a diarization system. The approach was presented at the 2024 CHiME workshop, which was a satellite event of Interspeech 2024 in Kos, Greece. Read more about the submission here.