Dr. Arianna Bisazza studies why some #languages are more difficult for computers to learn than others. 💻 In this video, she discusses her research project, drawing inspiration from how a child learns a language to enhance the #computerlearning process. 👇youtu.be/KItB06E9lQE?si…

praatpicture 1.2.0 is now on CRAN, time for a HYPE THREAD 👠👑🌈💥🔥🎸🎇💯

“Are people who use regional minority languages happier than those who don’t?” This is a question we aimed to answer in our recent paper with data from nearly 35,000 participants of the Lifelines cohort The paper is available here! bit.ly/brouweretal2024 ⬇️ Summary below ⬇️

Excited to share our latest project in our efforts to improve speech tech for individuals with speech difficulties! Check out our pre-print and summary below:

Come work with us under the fabulous supervision of Defne Abur - @defneabur.bsky.social and Frank Tsiwah, PhD!

New open access paper available from our group (Jonathan Gerona, Dörte de Kok, Roel Jonkers) in collaboration with Newcastle SLS (Christos Salis, Janet Webster): Characterization of agrammatism in Tagalog: Evidence from narrative spontaneous speech tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy to share my first publication for my PhD project. Hoping our work will help stimulate research initiatives in characterizing language disorders in more Philippine languages 🇵🇭 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

📢Noorderzon, morgen is het zover! Ook deze zomer is de RUG actief op Noorderzon. Bv zaterdag 31 aug 'Het Twijfelachtige Spektakel' met prof. Niels Taatgen #AI. Of een flitscollege van Young Academy Groningen. Elke dag is er het Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen #SPRAAKLAB met @martijnwieling. 👇

Speech tech/linguistics people! What is a comprehensive literature review tool that you have positive experience with? 😅 Haven’t found anything that has all the features that I want 😕

Hoe kunnen verandering in spraak ons helpen om verschillende ziekten, evenals het proces van ouder worden, te begrijpen? 🗣️ Dat bestudeert Defne Abur - @defneabur.bsky.social (Faculty of Arts - University of Groningen). Als nieuw lid voegt ze haar innovatieve onderzoek toe aan de Young Academy Groningen 👏👇 rug.nl/about-ug/lates…

Check out the article tejarebernik.bsky.social and I wrote on why kinematic speech measures are so important when studying those with motor speech disorders! Available in Dutch and English below ⬇️

Save the date for the 16th Advances in Quantitative Laryngology, Voice, and Speech Research (AQL) conference! 🌍 Groningen, the Netherlands ⏰ June 24 - 27th, 2025 📥 Abstract submission opens November 18th, 2024

Great to be a part of this city-wide educational science festival Festival della Scienza with the team☀️ thank you to all the volunteers, organizers, and participants 🙏