📢 Call for papers: Interspeech special session on Queer and Trans Speech Science and Technology!

Submit a 4- or 8-page paper to Interspeech by 25th February.

More info about the session: sites.google.com/view/is-quee...

Info about submitting to Interspeech: interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

Earned settlement The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.

For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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Our CDT is based in the Edinburgh Futures Institute – the University of Edinburgh’s brand new hub for research, innovation and teaching focused on socially just artificial intelligence and data.

Please share!

We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI.

www.responsiblenlp.org

no one should ever have to cross the channel on a tiny boat

in honour of interspeech this week, i’d like to issue a reminder that everyone has an accent, and that’s beautiful, actually: www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

www.isca-archive.org/interspeech_...

I tried: “what sport should I pick up?” and for my original (male) voice it responded with “association football is the most popular sport in the UK”. For my female one… “oh, for a newbie? Something easy like […]” — Goes without saying that research into these biases is important. 2/2

A highlight at #interspeech so far: the “hear me out” show&tell in which you can check how the spoken language model Moshi responds based on if it’s your voice or a voice converted version to the opposite gender.
Check it out here shreeharsha-bs.github.io/Hear-Me-Out/
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The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Welp. ATI had already narrowed its focus to health, sustainability and security, but are now being told that health and sustainability are no longer legitimate public priorities for AI research, and that this is consistent what ‘the British public expects.’

Can we reconstruct a dysarthric voice with the large speech model Parler TTS? Speech disorders can make communication hard or even impossible for those who develop them. Personalised Text-to-Speech is an attractive option as a communication aid. We attempt voice reconstruction ...

Very excited to share that our paper has been accepted to @interspeech.bsky.social 2025!

📢 Title: Can we reconstruct a dysarthric voice with the large speech model Parler TTS?

🔗 arXiv link: www.arxiv.org/abs/2506.04397

Looking forward to Rotterdam! 🇳🇱

well deserved, I loved the course!