Matt Coler @Mattcoler@fediscience.org

What a cool initiative at the Frisian Academy: digitizing Frisian voices from a century ago https://nos.nl/artikel/2443527-unieke-geluidsopnames-gedigitaliseerd-zo-spraken-friezen-een-eeuw-geleden

Conference on Frisian Humanities. 📖 Keynote: 'Towards inclusive automatic speech recognition'
🗨️ Odette Scharenborg
🗓️ Wednesday 14 Sept, 2022
📍 Westcord WTC Hotel, Leeuwarden https://frisianhumanities.frl/fy/programme/plenary-speakers/

Today I served on the opposition for the dissertation of the now DOCTOR Marilia Teixeira -- her unique work on phonetics/phonology/prosody of the Southern Nambikwara language Nutajensu is a remarkable achievement! https://vu.nl/nl/agenda/2022/promotie-m-gomes-teixeira

opportunity in the Netherlands: two 2y post-doc positions in NLP in the context of Humane AI!

Postdoc 1: Targeted Generation with Small Data - develop data-scarce strategies for text + speech reformulation: https://tangram-tis.nl/10378/Kandidaten/Inschrijfmethodes/00347-02S0009EPP…

Postdoc 2: Model Exposure and Adaptation to Less Represented Varieties - make models fairer through more inclusive adaptation strategies. https://tangram-tis.nl/10378/Kandidaten/Inschrijfmethodes/00347-02S0009EQP…

#Ukraine #warsaw

Polish solidarity w/ Ukraine is evident in the streets of Warsaw. And not just flags + platitudes, but job opportunities, fundraising and more.

New vacancy for a PhD position (employee) at the University of Groningen (Faculty of Arts) investigating #Frisian #SpeechTechnology, with Martijn Wieling, Jelske Dijkstra and me! https://t.co/L2A7pmsFsM

Maybe an interesting opportunity for students working in #speechtech : Internship (6 months) at NAVER LABS Europe to contribute to the development of a “single TTS model with the ability to control speaker identity, emotions, prosodic focus, etc” https://europe.naverlabs.com/job/fine-grained-multi-faceted-control-of-prosodic-features-for-tts-systems-internship/

And if you gaze long enough into an abyss …

🗣Postdoc in AI / speech tech at the Radboud University! 🤖🗯 https://www.academictransfer.com/en/314705/postdoctoral-researcher-in-the-humanities/

💼 Job Alert! Education administration + secretarial support officer | 0,6 fte | As of 1 September 🇳🇱

Come work with our committed and enthusiastic colleagues at Campus Fryslân, the 11th and youngest faculty of University of Groningen

✅ Apply before July 11: https://lnkd.in/eYWmU_WY

Oops I see now that it should have said “zero RESOURCE speech processing”

Tune in for Dr Shekhar Nayak’s lecture at LITHME 2nd int’l conference — stream it now! Zero research speech processing #speechtech https://m3.jyu.fi/jyumv/ohjelmat/hum/kivi/lithme/2nd-international-conference-language-in-the-human-machine-era/stream-2-b348-puro

The University of Groningen MSc Voice Tech delegation is presenting at the LITHME (EU COST Action CA19102) int’l conference in Finland 🇫🇮 🤖

➡️Shekhar Nayak “Unsupervised Speech Signal to Symbol Transformation for Zero Resource Speech Processing”

➡️ Frank Hopwood “Synthesising non-hegemonic speech styles for under-resourced language. A strategy to insulate languages from linguistic homogenisation”

Today at #sigul2022 (#lrec2022) our team will present research on phoneme mapping and source-language selection in transfer learning for TTS in under-resourced languages. Full paper here http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2022/workshops/SIGUL/pdf/2022.sigul-1.3.pdf #speechtech #text2speech #speechsynthesis

The penultimate chapter of our book is now available ahead-of-print #openacess : “Language use and variation within the #Greek linguistic minorities of Southern Italy” written by Manuela Pellegrino + Maria Olimpia Squillaci 🇬🇷🇮🇹📕 https://langsci-press.org/catalog/view/332/3573/2504-2

Interesting #speechtech job: Software Engineer (Full Stack) - Common Voice #mozilla — more info: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3074447615/?eBP=JOB_SEARCH_ORGANIC&recommendedFlavor=IN_NETWORK&refId=%2F1dFsv%2FpaQHUrb0skdAupg%3D%3D&trackingId=il%2B74RRs6ajFwTzwM1afew%3D%3D&trk=flagship3_search_srp_jobs

Fully-funded #phdPosition in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 Does #crypto have any impact on political sanctions & international relations?🔦🔐🗺 Deadline 7/17. Pls share.