4 papers submitted & accepted at #ACL2026 🎉 So grateful to work alongside & learn from amazing minds, pushing the boundaries of speech technologies, machine learning, and computational linguistics. See you in San Diego!

Thanks a lot for the interest in our work! Here's the recording for people who missed the seminar: youtu.be/DtFYKvNo9IQ

Self-supervised Speech Models are Phonological Vector Machines

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Kwanghee Choi@juice500ml.bsky.social · 6mo ago

𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬! 🗣️ Excited to be giving an invited talk this Thursday (March 19th, 3pm Amsterdam time)! Huge thanks to @mdhk.net at University of Amsterdam for the invite 🙏

𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐕𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬! 🗣️ Excited to be giving an invited talk this Thursday (March 19th, 3pm Amsterdam time)! Huge thanks to @mdhk.net at University of Amsterdam for the invite 🙏

✨New paper✨ We find script (e.g. Cyrillic, Latin) to be a linear direction in the activation space of Whisper, enabling transliteration at test-time by adding such script directions to the activations — producing e.g. Cyrillic Japanese transcriptions.

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CMU LTI Summer 2026 Internship Program Application

We are looking for applicants for the Carnegie Mellon University Language Technology Institute's Summer 2026 "Language Technology for All" internship program. The main goal of this internship is to pr...

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Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍 For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models — Tutorial @ Interspeech 2025

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Grzegorz Chrupała@grzegorz.chrupala.me · last yr.

And that's the whole team behind the tutorial on interpretability techniques for speech models at IS2025.

Can we make discrete speech units lightweight🪶 and streamable🏎? Excited to share our new #Interspeech2025 paper: On-device Streaming Discrete Speech Units arxiv.org/abs/2506.01845 (1/n)

www.nature.com/articles/350... Ted Chiang. Catching crumbs from the table. Nature 405, 517 (2000). My favorite sci-fi short, which surprisingly well-summarizes what I actually do nowadays. I bet self-supervised speech models contain undiscovered theories on phonetics and phonology.

Catching crumbs from the table - Nature

In the face of metahuman science, humans have become metascientists.

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It's good to finally have a good reference for this stuff! Kudos to the authors. arxiv.org/abs/2501.18374

Proofs for Folklore Theorems on the Radon-Nikodym Derivative

In this paper, rigorous statements and formal proofs are presented for both foundational and advanced folklore theorems on the Radon-Nikodym derivative. The cases of conditional and marginal probabili...

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Can self-supervised models 🤖 understand allophony 🗣? Excited to share my new #NAACL2025 paper: Leveraging Allophony in Self-Supervised Speech Models for Atypical Pronunciation Assessment arxiv.org/abs/2502.07029 (1/n)

New #NAACL2025 demo, Excited to introduce ESPnet-SDS, a new open-source toolkit for building unified web interfaces for both cascaded & end-to-end spoken dialogue system, providing real-time evaluation, and more! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08533 Live Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Siddh...

More from inside NIH: Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday. That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.

Are you a pre-doctoral student interested in language technologies, especially focusing on safe, fair and inclusive AI? Our Summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship could be a great fit. See the link below for more info, and to apply: lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

📣 #SpeechTech & #SpeechScience people We are organizing a special session at #Interspeech2025 on: Interpretability in Audio & Speech Technology Check out the special session website: sites.google.com/view/intersp... Paper submission deadline 📆 12 February 2025

We are excited to announce the launch of ML SUPERB 2.0 (multilingual.superbbenchmark.org) as part of the Interspeech 2024 official challenge! We hope this upgraded version of ML SUPERB advances universal access to speech processing worldwide. Please join it! #Interspeech2025