When we sneeze, we produce F0 contours. Are there differences among languages? Do French and German speakers sneeze differently?

What's better than a super awesome conference about future language tech? That's right, a FULLY FUNDED conference about future language tech @UCLouvain_be! 2-3 Sept 2024 No tech smarts needed, just interest in our themes. Deadline/eligibility etc: lithme.eu/conference2024. Go go!

Hot on the heels of our conference call, it's the return of our Short Term Scientific Missions! International travel grants for anyone interested in future language technologies. Tech folks and humanists all welcome. Read more and apply! 👇 lithme.eu/stsm2024call

Speech Tech Lab University of Groningen in the news! Our success with sarcasm recognition was featured in the Guardian today. But it's about more than just sarcasm: it's about fueling scientific innovations in speech tech with small data. theguardian.com/technology/art…

Literally (not sarcastically)

Opvallend onderzoek van RUG-onderzoekers Matt Coler 🦣 @[email protected], Gao en Nayak Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen

We are but fulfilling the prophecy m.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ73Q4…

Want to learn more about why and how UG/CF researchers Matt Coler 🦣 @[email protected], Shekhar Nayak and Xiyuan Gao trained an AI algorithm on detecting sarcasm? BBC Radio 4 interviewed dr. Coler, starting at 25 min. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Have you applied yet for our #LITHME conference ‘Exploring the Dark Side of Future Language Technologies: Linguistic (In)security, Ethics, and Privacy in the Human-Machine Era‘? ⏰The abstract submission deadline is approaching: 8 June 2024. More details👇👇👇

*Looking for a PhD student* Are you interested in language and sensory experience? Come and work on this exciting topic with us! Application deadline June 14th ru.nl/en/working-at/…

Back to our exchange on tribal and institutional #data yesterday, Jeremiah Owyang, I dig how Matt Coler 🦣 @[email protected] and Speech Lab Groningen trained AI models on 90's sitcoms to recognize sarcasm. If we continue to look at only what is in our system of cloud storage and databases, we are missing a

💯 It's high time to think more creatively about data for speech tech and about how to do more with less. Small data can drive big innovations!

.Matt Coler 🦣 @[email protected] vom Sprachtechnologie-Labor der University of Groningen: „Wir sind in der Lage, Sarkasmus zuverlässig zu erkennen, und wir wollen diese Fähigkeit weiter ausbauen.“ Via The Guardian: theguardian.com/technology/art…

ChatTTS: a powerful voice generation model designed for conversational scenarios - Trained on 100k hours of bilingual data - Excels in tasks like LLM assistant dialogues and video introductions - License: CC-BY-NC-4.0 Github github.com/2noise/ChatTTS Model huggingface.co/2Noise/ChatTTS

We joined the Speech Technology #summerschool led by Matt Coler 🦣 @[email protected] today at Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen, #Leeuwarden for their ethic workshop where they worked in small groups! The ideas they came up with were very inspiring and thought provoking👏

✨new PhD position ✨ related to neural control of pitch 🧠🗣️🎶 more info and application details here ➡️ rug.nl/about-ug/work-… Retweets are appreciated 🙏🏼

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