Thinking about submitting sth big to this coll
📣2 Feb: 4th Dutch Speech Tech Day!
Theme: "Crossing the Lines: Academia, Industry, and the Future of Knowledge"
🌟Keynote: @davidvanleeuwen.nl
Network with >100 likeminded people!
🌟Register by 26 Jan:
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Very cool but … does it sound any better than Von Kempelen’s speaking machine from the 1790’s?
Presented on interdisciplinary research and speech technology at the University of Warsaw Centre for Research on Culture, Language and Mind at the beautiful Old Library Building earlier today
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The tech industry loves billion-dollar voices, but what about the other 7,000 languages?
Excited to keynote the Winter School of Innovation tmrw at Uni of Warsaw. We’ll be tracing the innovation pathway that enables #SpeechTech w/ minimal data.
szkolazimowa.szkolydoktorskie.uw.edu.pl/en/
🧩 Diversity Committee
Agnes Axelsson
Berrak Sisman
Francisca Pessanha
⚖️ Ethics Committee
Matt Coler
👨👩👧👦 Family Committee
Martijn Goudbeek
💼 Sponsorship Committee
Chee Wee (Ben) Leong
Bhuvana Ramabhadran
Thomas Schaaf
Jimmy Kunzmann
Shekhar Nayak
Cristian Tejedor-García
A documentary about the social impact of our speech tech research @rug.nl is in the works. — “Holy Fools” film crew interviewed lab members earlier today. Stay tuned!
Forbes looks at how two young Poles created a startup that has established itself as the "voice of AI", outperforming giants like OpenAI in text-to-speech generation and reaching a valuation of $6.6 billion
But the firm has also been accused by audiobook narrators of exploiting their work.
11.5 month contract position at Meta, perception of synthesized speech from a tonal language. Prefer PhDs with expertise in tonal languages us.meta.talentnet.community/jobs/b689da9...
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Really enjoyed keynoting at the University of Warsaw “Breakthroughs. Cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences” conference last week. My talk, “Speaking Machines and Living Languages”, reflected on the history of speech synthesis.
inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/en/breakthro...
Lab member Phat Do’s research on speech tech for Frisian is discussed in the NRC www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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👉 “Good data management isn’t just about compliance or best practices – it makes your #research more efficient, more reproducible, and more impactful.”
Read our latest interview with @mattcoler.bsky.social to learn how he embedded #OpenScience into speech technology research:
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Will reach out! Let’s combine with a guest lecture :)
A few ethical issues to straighten out about permission etc but this all moves ahead. I really hope we can deliver simmering relatively soon. I don’t see why not!
What you suggest could easily happen! Waadhoeke site already has Bildts content + we have working TTS models from Blizzard. Cloud Run deployment totally doable. Could be first AI-powered minority language municipal TTS service!!
We missed you @daanvanesch.nl ! There were many fun discussions and your name came up at least once when I was talking about Aymara with Alistair.
This challenge, related to the Speech Synthesis Workshop @interspeech.bsky.social event, was at Campus Fryslân earlier this week and was dedicated to developing a synthetic voice for the regional language Bildts.
Our Blizzard Challenge at @rug.nl got picked up in the local press! lc.nl/friesland/le...
The SSW13 speech synthesis @interspeech.bsky.social satellite workshop starts today in Leeuwarden!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/the-speech...
Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.
Real speech tech innovation means solving problems, not just creating cool demos that become someone else’s security nightmare…
www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-...
Interspeech 2025 Speech Synthesis Workshop prelim program is live!
See below for more info inc keynotes from Conkie (Apple), Wallenberg (U Helsinki) + Murthy (IIT, Madras)
Interested? See you @ Campus Fryslân - @rug.nl in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 on August 24th!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/update-spe...
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We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
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