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Marianne de Heer KlootsWant to learn how to analyze the inner workings of speech processing models? 🔍 Check out the programme for our tutorial, taking place at this year's Interspeech conference in Rotterdam: <a href="https://interpretingdl.github.io/speech-interpretability-tutorial/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://interpretingdl.github.io/speech-interpretability-tutorial/</a>The schedule features presentations and interactive sessions with a great team of co-organizers: Charlotte Pouw, Gaofei Shen, Martijn Bentum, Tom Lentz, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/@hmohebbi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@hmohebbi</a>, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/@wzuidema" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@wzuidema</a>, <a href="https://sigmoid.social/@gchrupala" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@gchrupala</a> (and me!). We look forward to seeing you there 😃<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SpeechScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechScience</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Interspeech2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Interspeech2025</a>

Mark DingemanseCome work with us! Our department is hiring an Associate or Assistant Prof in language and speech technology <a href="https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/associateassistant-professor-language-and-speech-technology" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/associateassistant-professor-language-and-speech-technology</a> Open until March 16th<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/interspeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interspeech</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SpeechScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechScience</a> :boost_requested:

Matt Coler🎓 Open PhD Position: Speech Tech for Small LanguagesWorking on Frisian-Dutch bilingual speech + AI at Fryske Akademy/Campus Fryslân. Fully funded, 4 years, starts Sept 2025.More info ⬇️ <a href="https://voicetechnology.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/157245937/share-center" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://voicetechnology.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/157245937/share-center</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PhD</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/LowResourceLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LowResourceLanguages</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AcademicJobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicJobs</a>

Hari TulsidasSpeech arises in the mind. Therefore, speech using only thought is not a big surprise. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) are decoding neural activity, translating thoughts directly into words. This breakthrough could revolutionize communication for those with speech impairments, offering new hope for expressing thoughts without vocalization. <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Neuroscience</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/BCI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BCI</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Innovation</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a><a href="https://thedebrief.org/speech-using-only-the-power-of-thought-may-soon-be-a-reality-new-research-reveals/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://thedebrief.org/speech-using-only-the-power-of-thought-may-soon-be-a-reality-new-research-reveals/</a>

Matt Coler<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SummerSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SummerSchool</a> 2024: Charting new futures 📅 June 3--7 (register before April 15) 📍 Fryslân, the Netherlands 🔗 <a href="https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/speech-technology/?lang=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/speech-technology/?lang=en</a> 📣 Join this 5-day journey for the innovators, the dreamers, and the hands-on learners. Dive into a dynamic curriculum that blends the arts, ethics, design + tech. Engage in stimulating discussions and thought-provoking lectures. Experience a unique convergence of human-centered design and futuring!

FayeI love these kinds of little stories… Connections between unlikely sources with an unique result. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CampusFrysl%C3%A2n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CampusFryslân</a> #<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LITHME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LITHME</a><a href="https://lc.nl/friesland/leeuwarden/Roemeense-Drago%C8%99-verstaat-geen-woord-Fries-maar-zijn-computer-straks-wel-28440162.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lc.nl/friesland/leeuwarden/Roemeense-Drago%C8%99-verstaat-geen-woord-Fries-maar-zijn-computer-straks-wel-28440162.html</a>

FayeTomorrow will start a conference on speech technology… One can imagine algorithms and the ‘AI’ variety to be of special interest for translations between speech, text, languages, meta data and other pseudo-semantic instances. I will be arguing the risks and offer a solution for human behavioural relations, pertaining to the use of so called ‘Large Language Models’s <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLM</a> produce. Throw away after use! There will be online streaming<a href="https://lithme.eu/conference/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lithme.eu/conference/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NLP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Behaviour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Behaviour</a>

Matt ColerDiscover the Future of Speech Technology!🤖 Speech Tech Summer School: 🤖 robots, 👾 video games, 🗯 voice cloning ... and more!🗓 May 14-17 📍 Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen <a href="https://social.edu.nl/@universityofgroningen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@universityofgroningen</a> , the Netherlands ⏰ Few spots left!<a href="https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/speech-technology/?lang=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/speech-technology/?lang=en</a>Please share w interested students of all backgrounds! <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/voicetechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voicetechnology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechtechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtechnology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtech</a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/summerschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#summerschool</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechrecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechrecognition</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/voiceai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voiceai</a>

Matt ColerDiscover the Future of Speech Technology!🤖 Speech Tech Summer School: robots, video games, voice cloning ... and more! 🗓 May 14-17 📍 Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen, the NetherlandsFrom robots 🤖 to video games 👾 to speech recognition 🗯, our hands-on summer school will feature workshops plus, speakers from Google, Respeecher, and more.⏰ Space is limited! <a href="https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/speech-technology/?lang=en" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.rug.nl/education/summer-winter-schools/speech-technology/?lang=en</a><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/voicetechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voicetechnology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechtechnology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtechnology</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtech</a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/summerschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#summerschool</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechrecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechrecognition</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/voiceai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voiceai</a>

Matt ColerA week ago today I was speaking at the 1st Dutch Speech Tech Day in Hilversum. Focusing on what the University of Groningen <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/VoiceTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoiceTech</a> team was working on and introducing the new MSc Voice Tech. Plus, promoted the upcoming <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SummerSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SummerSchool</a>

Matt ColerCongrats to Leminh Nguyen from the MSc Voice Technology who was nominated for the prestigious Ben Feringa Impact award because of his groundbreaking work on Luxembourgish Speech Recognition! 💻🗯️ Freely available, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/OpenAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OpenAccess</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechTech</a> for <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Luxembourgish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luxembourgish</a> 👏🇱🇺 well done!!<a href="https://www.rug.nl/news/2023/01/nominees-for-the-ben-feringa-impact-award-to-be-announced" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.rug.nl/news/2023/01/nominees-for-the-ben-feringa-impact-award-to-be-announced</a>

Matt ColerOur MSc Voice Tech grad Leminh Nguyen presented his poster at the 2022 IEEE Spoken Language Technology workshop: "improving <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Luxembourgish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Luxembourgish</a> speech recognition with cross-lingual speech representations" <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechRecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechRecognition</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a>

Matt ColerThe IEEE Workshop on “Self-supervision in Audio, Speech, and Beyond” will be held jointly with ICASSP. 📍 Greece 🇬🇷 🗓️ June 4 -- 9 📨 Submissions accepted until Feb 24th. Accepted papers will appear in the official IEEE ICASSP proceedings and IEEE Xplore. ℹ️ More info: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/icassp-sasb-2023/descriptionons" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/icassp-sasb-2023/descriptionons</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cfp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cfp</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#audio</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/VoiceTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VoiceTech</a>

Vaclav Hanzl<a href="https://mstdn.social/@nickfisherau" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@nickfisherau</a> Nice. Did you publish any details about your alignment code? For post-edit - maybe <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Praat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Praat</a> is easier for <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtech</a>? I recently did phone alignment tool as a gift to Czech <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phonetics</a> and minimizing dependencies (and install hassle), I finally went without anything like Kaldi, using just very basic <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/Pytorch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pytorch</a> for NN AM training and then alignment. I guess going zero-up was really easier than decomposing some big thing like Whisper. <a href="https://github.com/vaclavhanzl/prak" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/vaclavhanzl/prak</a>

Nick FisherI still need to manually check (and occasionally correct) the alignments though.I wrote a couple of Python scripts/extension for Audacity that loads up the audio/labels so you can manually drag the handles to adjust the alignments. Works pretty well! I know there are various web interfaces for this but seems you need to use them for your entire pipeline (ingest/labelling/export/indexing/etc) or not at all.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/asr" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#asr</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#speechtech</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/speechrecognition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#speechrecognition</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/machinelearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#machinelearning</a>

Phonetics LabHi everyone we are the Phonetics Lab at Lancaster University! We'll be tooting about fun phonetics stuff as well as news from our lab and collaborators. <a href="https://mastodon.world/@LAEL" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@LAEL</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phonetics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/phonology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#phonology</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labphon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labphon</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/sociophonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sociophonetics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/articulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#articulation</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/forensicphonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#forensicphonetics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtech</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/bilingualism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bilingualism</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ultrasound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ultrasound</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EMA</a>

Maaike💡 Interesting read on how one of the biggest commercial players out there plans to use Mozilla Open Voice data to make speech AI more inclusive and open to more language.💬 Sounds idealistic, but Open Voice datasets are created by unpaid volunteers who donate hours and hours of their speech. Not sure whether I feel comfortable with that, tbh.💭 Thoughts?<a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-enters-the-speech-ai-race-joining-meta-and-google/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://venturebeat.com/ai/nvidia-enters-the-speech-ai-race-joining-meta-and-google/</a><a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/ethicalAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ethicalAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/transparentai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transparentai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/voice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/voicetech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#voicetech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/speechAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechAI</a>

Abi :coffefied:We'll dig deeper into OpenAI Whisper (<a href="https://openai.com/blog/whisper/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://openai.com/blog/whisper/</a>) this weekend. I'll announce a DateTime for the YT live stream here later. Note: It's not a presentation but a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StudyWithMe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StudyWithMe</a> session. You can also join in on the task/Livestream via audio/video through Google Meet.YT Link: <a href="http://youtube.com/@datadrivenbabe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">http://youtube.com/@datadrivenbabe</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Data" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Data</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VoiceTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#VoiceTech</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NLP</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SpeechTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SpeechTech</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ML</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MLOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MLOps</a>How much do you know about the sub-field already?

Matt ColerMaybe an interesting opportunity for students working in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtech</a> : Internship (6 months) at NAVER LABS Europe to contribute to the development of a “single TTS model with the ability to control speaker identity, emotions, prosodic focus, etc” <a href="https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/fine-grained-multi-faceted-control-of-prosodic-features-for-tts-systems-internship/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/fine-grained-multi-faceted-control-of-prosodic-features-for-tts-systems-internship/</a>

Matt ColerTune in for Dr Shekhar Nayak’s lecture at LITHME 2nd int’l conference — stream it now! Zero research speech processing <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/speechtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speechtech</a> <a href="https://m3.jyu.fi/jyumv/ohjelmat/hum/kivi/lithme/2nd-international-conference-language-in-the-human-machine-era/stream-2-b348-puro" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://m3.jyu.fi/jyumv/ohjelmat/hum/kivi/lithme/2nd-international-conference-language-in-the-human-machine-era/stream-2-b348-puro</a>

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