📣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: www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-dutch-... More info: sites.google.com/view/dutchsp...
Very cool but … does it sound any better than Von Kempelen’s speaking machine from the 1790’s?
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 7mo agoThis is an artificial mouth created by Japanese researchers. It uses artificial vocal cords, a trachea system, and a flexible silicone mouth that moves and shapes sound in real time. It sounds so human-like!
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 centrumq.uw.edu.pl/en/2025/12/l...
Lecture by Matt Coler - Centre for Research on Culture, Language and Mind
Centre for Research on Culture, Language and Mind invites you to the lecture by Prof. Matt Coler, “Speech technology as interdisciplinary science”. Artificial intelligence has revolutionized speech sy...
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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/
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🧩 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.
How A Tiny Polish Startup Became The Multi-Billion-Dollar Voice Of AI
ElevenLabs’ computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother. That’s both a blessing and a curse for the four-year-old company.
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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...
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/... @cite-cf.bsky.social
Dankzij spraakwetenschapper Phat Do kan iedereen klinken als een Fries
Computers die Engels spreken zijn er volop. Maar voor ‘kleine’ talen als het Fries zijn de mogelijkheden beperkt.
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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: 🔗 edu.nl/wa6vk
Protecting voices, sharing knowledge: responsible data practices in speech research
Dr. Matt Coler is an Associate Professor at Campus Fryslân and Director of the MSc Speech Technology. In this interview, he tells us more about embedding...
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Our Blizzard Challenge at @rug.nl got picked up in the local press! lc.nl/friesland/le...
Voor het eerst spreekt een computerstem vloeiend Bildts. ‘Met ’e bloate bealig in ’e blaik’
Gerard de Jong, Phat Do en Matt Coler bij Campus Fryslân (RUG) in Leeuwarden. Foto: Hoge Noorden/Jaap Schaaf
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The SSW13 speech synthesis @interspeech.bsky.social satellite workshop starts today in Leeuwarden! voicetechnology.substack.com/p/the-speech...
🎙️ The Speech Synthesis Workshop Kicks Off Today!
Today marks the beginning of something extraordinary in the world of speech technology -- and we are proud to be hosting it.
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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.
How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?
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Real speech tech innovation means solving problems, not just creating cool demos that become someone else’s security nightmare… www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-...
OpenAI CEO warns banks of 'impending fraud crisis' from AI voices
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered a stark warning to the financial industry Tuesday, cautioning that artificial intelligence tools capable of perfectly...
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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...
Update: Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) & Blizzard Challenge 2025
Preliminary program is live!
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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 Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
🎤 SSW13 registration is OPEN! Join SSW in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 Registration: 📍 With Interspeech: www.aanmelder.nl/164976/regis... 📍 Workshop only: forms.gle/Hn4NqmiJP8pt... FREE Blizzard Challenge: forms.gle/vqtRSRuz1wEU... More!: blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/r... #SpeechSynthesis #SSW13 #Interspeech2025
Interspeech 2025 registration - Register
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Counterpoint: Ceci n'est pas de la nourriture but that is a pipe
1/ On May 8-9, we gathered in Delft for the Technical Program Committee meeting of @interspeech.bsky.social . It was a very intense but fruitful two days. We are very grateful to the PCO TU Delft Events for organizing this meeting.
Attn.: German speakers! 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Our MSc Speech Tech student is looking for participants in a fun study that takes < 15 min. Your involvement will help us advance speech synthesis tech for singing applications, which has benefits for accessibility tools, creative industries, + language preservation
Our MSc Speech Technology graduate Igor Marchenko was awarded the Ben Feringa Impact award for his cutting-edge research in whispered speech recognition ⬇️
University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen@rug.nl · last yr.Prof. Francesco Picchioni (FSE/@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social) and PhD student Igor Marchenko (Campus Fryslân) are the winners of the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025! 🏆 Both Picchioni and Marchenko have been working on impactful innovations. Read more 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat... #Science #Impact 🧪
We’re psyched to be hosting the @interspeech.bsky.social SSW satellite event at The University of Groningen faculty Campus Fryslân @rug.nl — the 2025 Blizzard Challenge involves the Bildts language. More info ⬇️
Interspeech 2026@interspeech.bsky.social · last yr.Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025 in Leeuwarden, NL 🇳🇱 Theme: Scaling Down: Sustainable Synthesis for Language Diversity 🌍 📅 Aug 24-26, 2025 🔬 TTS, emotional speech, style control, multilingual synthesis... 🎯 Special Challenge: Synthesizing Bildts dialect blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025
Can’t think of a better way to spend a couple days doing the good work of science, and no better people with which to spend it. Terrific organization, and perfect hosts! 💯
Odette Scharenborg@odettes.bsky.social · last yr.And.... we're done for now. Two days of discussing papers and passing along papers to create the best oral and poster sessions. Great progress towards an amazing technical program for @interspeech.bsky.social 2025. Thank you to all the TPC members and our amazing "Mother Geese", our PCO!
Speaking as an American: Mooi dat we wetenschappers willen aantrekken, maar kunnen we eerst zorgen dat Nederlandse universiteiten zelf kunnen overleven? #academicsky www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/e...
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Met een investering van 600 miljoen euro hopen de EU en Frankrijk topwetenschappers uit Amerika aan te trekken nu ze onder president Trump hun werk niet in vrijheid kunnen doen. Macron: ‘Als u van vri...
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@michaelchesnut.bsky.social the #LinguisticLandscape of Warsaw is interesting, what with the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets visible within and across signage.
