Michael McAuliffe

Oh yeah, that's probably an error, I'll correct it. The way it works for <cutoff> is that it'll assume it's a cutoff of the next immediately following word, so yeah should be "<cutoff-longword> longword word"

Definitely a bug, there is logic to decrease the probability of spn for cutoffs (but keep it as possibility vs subwords), but either it's not working correctly or if it is treating it as an <unk> token explicitly, then the cutoff model isn't being applied. I'll try to take a look at it this weekend!

YouTube video by Christian DiCanio Phonetic variant coding - glottalized sonorants

As a prep for my last lectures on phonetic fieldwork at the LSA summer institute, I created a youtube video guiding users through how I (quickly) mark phonetic variants in recordings. I’m happy to send along the Praat script (or similar versions on my website).

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The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home

#LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.

Going to start calling Sam Altman "Sloppenheimer"

In @vauhinivara.bsky.social 's book "Searches" there is a lovely chapter reflecting on how hard it can be to avoid Amazon, but there is really zero reason to buy books there anymore, ever. Go to your local indie or check out bookshop.org

We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers and further information will be announced by the organizing committee. #LabPhon

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Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?

Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

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The results of a collapse could be catastrophic.
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a close up of a sheep 's face with trees in the background Alt: Sheep bleating

Can't believe they settled on "skeets" when "bleats" was right there

new-fave

Check out the docs & intro tutorials for new-fave! #nwav52

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Anyone else working in "AI" have a serious disconnect when reading scifi/fantasy these days where they talk about actually useful/intelligent AIs? I have to do a double take anytime a character just assumes that an AI will do a novel task well.

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Does anyone know if ASR models with transformer/conformer architectures (i.e. Whisper) struggle more with producing faithful transcripts for languages with scrambling since they aren't as time linear dependent? Like does Russian scrambling get undone by Whisper in favor of more common word orders?

I did watch a review of the first couple of manga arcs and it seems quite different than the anime in terms of actually contextualizing Luffy and giving rationale to his goals, so it might be mostly a result of the anime

Maybe! I was probably looking for something different than it was.

Anyway, there's much better anime out there than One Piece, I feel, with actual characters that have actual motivations and the story actually makes sense. Would recommend Apothecary Diaries! Even more recent shonen anime like My Hero Academia has more relatable characters I feel.

This honestly feels like worse story telling compared to the revenge fantasy of Rising of the Shield Hero, and that's really saying something

Watching One Piece for the first time and I'm just... very confused as to why people like this and what the point of this is? This should be comparable to Naruto and Bleach, right? But it just feels so much more lacking. Like what's the point of the story? (tbf I'm on episode 2 right now)

Ah perfect, thank you!

Video of it hunting some grubs
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@carlbergstrom.com pardon for the ping, but is this a corvid of some kind? I don't recognize it and I'm not having luck tracking it down on the Internet. This is in South Florida.

Deadline extension! Abstracts for CorpusPhon are now due Wednesday, March 13 AoE.

We are also excited to announce Dr. Michael McAuliffe @mmcauliffe.bsky.social
as our invited speaker.

Hope you can join us!