Thanks to Ania for giving us a change to talk about our work on voice cloning and its uses for good!

Somewhere on Earth: The Global Tech Podcast@soeptech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI voice clones can be up to 20% more intelligible than humans in noisy environments. Big potential for accessibility, but also growing risks as cloned voices sound more trustworthy. 🎧 Listen: www.spreaker.com/episode/ai-v...

We at SHaPS at UCL have an opportunity for 𝗨𝗞 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 to join a 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆-𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗵𝗗 project, examining voice cloning and how it could support communication in hearing loss. Applications open until 𝟮𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘆. Feel free to message me if interested. lnkd.in/eJYSEr_a lnkd.in/er3SHd5U

New preprint: Cloned voices are easier to understand in noise than their human originals: the voice cloning intelligibility benefit (with @hwanguc.bsky.social) osf.io/preprints/ps...

NEW PAPER ALERT! In a dual-task-fMRI paradigm, we used machine learning (XGBoost) as a robust and explainable approach to revealing the dissociable task effects on activation patterns for noise-vocoded speech processing in a set of frontotemporal regions that were hidden by inferential statistics🧠😆.

Patti Adank@pattiadank.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Check out our lab's NEW paper, now available: "Neural Processing of Noise-Vocoded Speech Under Divided Attention: An fMRI-Machine Learning Study" #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @hwanguc.bsky.social @rongruc.bsky.social

Check out our lab's NEW paper, now available: "Neural Processing of Noise-Vocoded Speech Under Divided Attention: An fMRI-Machine Learning Study" #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @hwanguc.bsky.social @rongruc.bsky.social

What a joyful day to wrap up four and a half amazing years at UCL! Huge thanks to my brilliant supervisor @pattiadank.bsky.social, the Speech on the Brain Lab, and everyone who’s been part of the ride🤩 UCL has always been—and will always be—a meaningful part of me😝

I like this, vibrotactile cross-modal processing in cochlear implant users: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Exposure to vibrotactile music improves audiometric performances in individuals with cochlear implants - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Exposure to vibrotactile music improves audiometric performances in individuals with cochlear implants

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Closing tomorrow! Apply for my fully-funded PhD studentship, open to UK students

Emma Holmes@emmaholmes90.bsky.social · last yr.

Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss

Contact @rongruc.bsky.social 📣Participants Needed 🔍 A fun brain stimulation study using tDCS to explore how we process distorted speech. 👂 2 short lab visits (3h total) = £35 📍 UCL Chandler House (WC1N 1PF) See poster below! #UCL #BrainResearch #BrainStimulation #PaidStudy #tDCS #CognitiveScience

Deadline extended for my fully-funded #PhD position - apply by 7th May! Come and work with me & join the UCL Cognitive Hearing Lab: bit.ly/3RAEYZ8 The studentship is funded by RNID and will help make noisy environments easier for people with hearing loss

Emma Holmes@emmaholmes90.bsky.social · last yr.

New *Funded PhD opportunity* for UK students to work with me at UCL (London), researching auditory training interventions to improve speech understanding in noisy environments. Deadline 28th April. Full details and job description: bit.ly/4ccbbzj @uclpals.bsky.social [please share]

OK here it is, the moment you have all been waiting for! Our advert for 5 posts here at Glasgow: Cognitive neuroscience/psychology. Closing date May 12 - please spread the word www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Professor, Senior Lecturer/Lecturer and Lecturer posts - Glasgow City (GB) job with University of Glasgow | 12838283

University of Glasgow College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences  School of Psychology & Neuroscience Professor in Cognitive Neuroscience/Psy...

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Kate Jeffery@katejj.bsky.social · last yr.

Just boosting this again because after a bit of bureaucratic wrangling we are now almost ready to launch! Adverts should be out next week - will keep you posted

Available at doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: A dual task study

Listeners can adapt to noise-vocoded speech under divided attention using a dual task design [Wang, Chen, Yan, McGettigan, Rosen, and Adank, Trends Hear. 27, 23

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Congratulations to Dr Hannah Wilt for passing her PhD viva last week with NO CORRECTIONS. Thanks also to the examiners @salonikrishnan.bsky.social and @gambichiara.bsky.social for making this a great day!

Paper accepted: "Automatic imitation of vocal actions is unaffected by group membership", - to be published in Psychological Research, - with Hannah Wilt and Tony Trotter

I suggest everyone visits our webpage and looks at how beautiful we all are thanks to @carignan.bsky.social 's amazing photography skills ;-) www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

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New paper accepted with Han Wang, Taylor Hepworth, and Stephanie Borrie, in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America: "Perceptual adaptation to dysarthric speech is modulated by concurrent phonological processing: a dual-task study"

MRC Units across the UK have led the scientific world for generations, but are due to be closed with little consultation, for reasons that are largely unknown. Please sign this letter if you would like the MRC to reconsider. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter to Sir Patrick Vallance

To sign the letter, please complete the form here: https://forms.gle/eRydV6VpMQVFPtdF7 Please forward a link to this letter to any colleagues who you think may be interested in signing – we would li...

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Exciting new prepping from my department: Voice deep fakes sound realistic but not (yet) hyperrealistic osf.io/preprints/ps...

We have funded PhD studentships available in Speech Hearing and Phonetic Sciences (SHaPS) at UCL for UK students only, please contact a potential supervisor in SHaPS to agree on a PhD project first: www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/researc...

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I made the leap as well from the platform not to be named, and I should have done so months ago! Here's a picture of Moxie just because #whippets

With Bluesky a-hoppin', now's a good time to advertise that faculty (inc. me!) at UConn (both in Language and Cognition and Speech and Hearing) are recruiting PhD students. Fantastic Lang. Sci. community, some cool training grants. psychology.uconn.edu/phd/language...

Language and Cognition | Department of Psychological Sciences

The language and cognition concentration examines neurobiological mechanisms in speech perception, reading, sentence processing, semantic memory, and more.

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Dissecting the causal role of early inferior frontal activation in reading www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Does the left pIFC specifically & causally mediate rapid computation of speech motor codes at the earliest stage of reading? Used TMS to investigate

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