Everything ready here at SLT 2024! I will soon present our paper “Proficiency assessment of L2 spoken English using wav2vec 2.0”. #SLT2022

What a great poster session! So many interesting questions and stimulating discussions! Thanks SLT 2024 for this amazing conference. #SLT2022

I’m super excited to announce that our contribution “Towards automatic spoken grammatical error correction of L2 learners of English” w/ Michela Rais and Marco Matassoni will be presented at the workshop “AI ed Educazione” of Ital-IA 2023 in Pisa at the end of May. Can’t wait!

Please greet Dr Bannò! Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at UniTrento DiPSCo. Special thanks go to my supervisor Marco Matassoni from the SpeechTeK Lab of Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK, who has constantly supported and guided me on this journey over the last 3 and a half years.

It’s been a fantastic two days at UK Speech 2023, where I presented our work on the assessment of L2 oral proficiency using self-supervised speech representation learning. Thanks to the organising committee and The University of Sheffield! 🚀🚀🚀

Super thrilled to announce that we had two papers (on automatic assessment and grammatical error correction of L2 speech) accepted @ #SLaTE2023, which will take place next August right before INTERSPEECH 2025. See you soon in Dublin! ☘️

Ciao mamma! I’ve just started working as a Research Associate at the ALTA Institute // Cambridge University Engineering Department, and I’m extremely excited about this. 🚀🚀🚀 It’s great to be back here and to have the opportunity to work with such an amazing team.

What’s the craic, people? My first SLaTe has been a blast! I’ve been waiting for this workshop for so long, and now that it’s over I can’t wait for the next edition. We even won the award for the best paper! Many thanks to the organising committee! 🤩 #SLaTe2023 #Interspeech2023

Can Whisper provide grammatically corrected and/or fluent transcriptions to L2 learners? Well, apparently it can!

🚀 🚀 🚀 Thrilled to announce that our paper “Towards end-to-end spoken grammatical error correction” has been accepted for IEEE ICASSP 2024! You can find the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2311.05550. Big up to my co-authors Rao Ma, Mengjie Qian, Kate Knill, and Mark Gales! 🎉

I was one of the finalists for the 2024 Jacqueline Ross TOEFL Dissertation Award. I'm so happy to have made it this far and received this recognition. Congratulations to the recipient of the award, @JDylanBurton! tinyurl.com/TOEFL-Disserta… My thesis: tinyurl.com/banno-phd-thes…

ICASSP is awesome! Earlier today we presented our paper on spoken grammatical error correction and received so many interesting questions, comments and suggestions. Thanks for visiting us at our poster! #ICASSP2024

🎙️ Exciting News for the UK & Ireland Speech Community! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce the upcoming UK & Ireland Speech Workshop 2024! 🗓️ 1-2 July 2024 📍 Cambridge ❗️Submission deadline: 8 May 2024 🌐 ukis2024.eng.cam.ac.uk 📧 [email protected]

If you missed my #SLaTE webinar on spoken grammatical error correction, you can now watch it on YouTube. Many thanks to Helmer Strik, Rahul Divekar, Mengjie Qian, and the SLaTE committee for inviting me! youtu.be/rSY6VfsezBM

The videos of the first three ISCA SIG SLaTE #webinars are online, see linkedin.com/feed/update/ur… If you know somebody who might be interested in giving a #presentation, please contact [one of] us. #ISCA #SIG-SLaTE #elearning #ict4mfl #edtech #edapps #EUROCALL

Just started watching “Lift” on Netflix. Don't care if I’m going to like it or not. In the first 10 minutes, Gugu Mbatha-Raw has already pronounced the name Stefano correctly at least 3 times, which almost made me cry.

Mon. 04/11/2024 15:00 CET, SLaTE webinar by Nobuaki Minematsu Title: Measurement of listening behaviors of learners and raters and its application for L2 aural/oral training For info. and free registration see sites.google.com/view/sigslate #ISCA_Speech #SIG_SLaTE #elearning #edtech

Ekaterina Kochmar, Sowmya Vajjala, Stefano Bannò, @kaushalMaurya94, and I are organizing a tutorial on LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities at #COLING2025 COLING 2025 coling2025-edu-llms.github.io

🚨 Interested in L2 English learning & assessment? Announcing the Speak & Improve Challenge 2025 at SLaTE 2025! 🚀 •Focus: Spoken language assessment & feedback tech •Timeline: Training data available now; evaluation ends March 2025 TLDR: mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~mq227/sandi20…

🚀 Excited to be co-presenting “LLMs in Education: Novel Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities” at #COLING2025 tomorrow! 🕒 Time: 14:00 - 17:30 (GST) 📍 Location: Capital Suite 7 In the meantime, check out our website: coling2025-edu-llms.github.io