It’s been a fabulous week at ALPS-2026 - fantastic to have the opportunity to interact with so many bright young minds in a wonderful environment.

On my way to Lyon to give a talk at ALPS-2026 lig-alps.imag.fr

Thanks to the amazing dedicated efforts of community-minded colleagues over many years, the International Speech Communications Association (ISCA) maintains the largest open archive of research papers in speech communications www.isca-archive.org

I'm honoured to be speaking at the 6th Advanced Language Processing Winter School (ALPS 2026) 29th March to 3rd April 2026. My topic will be "Machines aren’t people – so are there limits on how we converse with them?" lig-alps.imag.fr

Season’s Greetings on picture of Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese pub, Castleton, UK

What Needs to be Known in Order to Perform a Meaningful Scientific Comparison Between Animal Communications and Human Spoken Language Human spoken language has long been the subject of scientific investigation, particularly with regard to the mechanisms underpinning speech production. Likewise, the study of animal communications has...

If you missed my VIHAR-24 paper “What Needs to be Known in Order to Perform a Meaningful Scientific Comparison Between Animal Communications and Human Spoken Language” - it’s now available here arxiv.org/abs/2512.06890

#18.12 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Roger Moore YouTube video by Speech Pitch

After my ISCA Medal Keynote talk at INTERSPEECH-2025, I was interviewed for the ISCA-SAC Speech Pitch podcast - youtu.be/omOP8XaL3t0?...

People at a meal

Alessandro and Roger

Very productive visit to the Zurich Phonetics and Speech Sciences (PaSS) doctoral colloquium yesterday- special thanks to @Allesandro De Luka for the invitation and looking after the logistics

On my way to Zurich to give an invited talk tomorrow “Towards ‘Intelligent’ Communicative Machines” at the Phonetics and Speech Sciences (PaSS) doctoral colloquium - looking forward to meeting everyone

Not a bad start to the day …

Home - ICSR 2025 International Conference on Social Robotics + AI Home ICSR 2025 Welcome to the official website of ICSR 2025 International Conference on Social Robotics + AI, Naples September 10 - 12, 2025

On my way to Naples for ICSR+AI (icsr2025.eu). Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a poster by Adam Jones (one of my undergraduate project students) on “HRI-based interview training using the @furhatrobotics.bsky.social robot”.

If you missed my keynote at INTERSPEECH-2025 (or would like to see it again), it’s now available online at www.interspeech2025.org/recordings - my bit is Keynote 1 and it starts at 1:05:30

IEEE RO-MAN 2025

One my way back to the Netherlands to attend RO-MAN in Eindhoven, and to present @Benjamin Barrow’s work with FurHat on ‘trust’ www.ro-man2025.org

In exactly a week’s time, I’ll be delivering my keynote talk at INTERSPEECH in Rotterdam www.interspeech2025.org/keynotes

I’m in the process of putting together my Keynote talk for INTERSPEECH-2025: www.interspeech2025.org/keynote/. If there’s a question or issue you’d like me to address, reply to this post. Obviously I can’t guarantee to include every suggestion, but I thought it would be an interesting idea to try.

A last chance to look around Turin, so it was great to bump into @andrearavignani.bsky.social and his wife at a viewpoint overlooking the city

In Turin to attend the 10th Joint Action Meeting (JAM-X) - looking forward to some great talks www.intobrain.it/it/jamx/

We are excited to announce a call for papers for our Frontiers special issue “Exploring human-likeness in AI”: www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

2-Day UK and Ireland annual speech workshop (UKIS) well underway at York University sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/u...

We are pleased to announce that the Computer Speech and Language journal has updated its scope to concentrate on all aspects of spoken language processing. This means we are no longer accepting pure NLP submissions. Check out the revised aims & scope here www.sciencedirect.com/journal/comp...

I cloned my voice in seconds using a free AI app, and we really need to talk about speech synthesis AI copycat voices are on the rise

What have we done ? “I cloned my voice in seconds using a free AI app, and we really need to talk about speech synthesis” www.techradar.com/computing/ar...

Speech people! The latest #ISCApad is out:
services.isca-speech.org/iscapad/isca...

With great news: the ISCA medalist 2025 is @rogerkmoore.bsky.social 😍

Super happy for him! Roger was my first post-doc advisor. I'm very much looking forward to handing him the Medal at @interspeech.bsky.social 🥳

On my way to Frankfurt for TeaP2025 (where I’ll be talking about the ‘uncanny valley’) coms.app/TeaP2025/xpa...

I’m incredibly honoured (and rather humbled) to reveal that I’ve been awarded the 2025 Medal for Scientific Achievement by the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) isca-speech.org/ISCA-Medal-f...

On my way to Dagstuhl for Seminar 25032
Task and Situation-Aware Evaluation of Speech and Speech Synthesis www.dagstuhl.de/25032

interspeech2025.org submission platform open

🔴 Paper submission platform for #Interspeech2025 is now open!

www.interspeech2025.org/paper-submis...

Many congratulations Guanyu - it’s been great working with you over the past three years 😊

What Do Robots Sound Like? Sound for human-robot interactions

I was recently interviewed by Ali Tocher for his excellent series of podcasts “What do robots sound like” shows.acast.com/what-do-robo...