🌟 Big news for the #opensource #AI community: 🎉 Habemus #SpeechBrain 1.0! 🌐 Website: speechbrain.github.io 💻 Repo: github.com/speechbrain/sp… 🔍 Discover what's new: colab.research.google.com/drive/1IEPfKRu… ⭐️ Show support: Star on #GitHub if you appreciate our effort to the community!

Very rewarding experience for me. Plus an awesome team to work with! Apply if you’re interested.

My first #BAAP2024 and the Oxford group. It’s lovely to meet everyone!

It has come to our attention that many researchers and developers are confused by the existence of both zh-hk (Hong Kong Chinese) and yue (Cantonese) on Common Voice, and don't know which one to use. Our short answer is: use yue, and do NOT use zh-hk. Reasons below.

Check out our paper exploring individual speakers behaviour within a forensic automatic speaker recognition.

Thanks for dropping by our poster and all the questions and comments! #UKIS2024 #Cambridge #UKSpeech

🔍Journal recommendations needed: my coauthor and I wrote a piece of systematic review (phonetics field). Many journals are theoretically or empirically oriented. What would be a good journal option?

🔥 The first paper on Plastic Mandarin in the Journal of Phonetics is out! Check it out🌟 It’s fully open access. Oxford Linguistics 🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

What a great experience at #OxfordLLMs. This week was filled with frontier knowledge and research on LLMs in social science (as well as rain water). I’m inspired. Thank you Maksim Zubok, Humeyra Biricik and Ilya Boytsov for excellent organization! #oxfordllms2024

Applications are open for the ninth summer school on statistical methods for linguistics and psychology (SMLP 2025), to be held August 25-29, 2025 in Potsdam, Germany: vasishth.github.io/smlp2025/

A reward for a “night owl”— northern lights!

New paper 🔥🔥🔥 We conducted a cross-linguistic review of citation tone studies and proposed a range of recommendations on ‘distilling’ citation tones. Dr. Cong Zhang Oxford Linguistics 🔗pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic…

🚨New preprint🚨 "Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges" osf.io/3pkj6/ Led by @m_faytak, @kadavasar, Chenzi Xu, @_Onurunki & Dr. Erin Buchanan A short summary 🧵1/

New Cantonese acoustic models are available! 💛trained using the Common Voice 19 Cantonese subset and Chinese (Hong Kong) subset, with 3400 speakers. 💛different phone set/dictionary options #MFA #phonetics #Cantonese 🔗 github.com/chenchenzi/HKC…

Hands-on MFA series on the low-resource language Bora, based on fieldwork word lists from a single speaker (~1.5 hours!). #phonetics #MFA #forcedalignment #tutorial #bora ⭐️ available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/3asr…