🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...

Had such a great time presenting our tutorial on Interpretability Techniques for Speech Models at #Interspeech2025! 🔍 For anyone looking for an introduction to the topic, we've now uploaded all materials to the website: interpretingdl.github.io/speech-inter...

Can we make discrete speech units lightweight🪶 and streamable🏎? Excited to share our new #Interspeech2025 paper: On-device Streaming Discrete Speech Units arxiv.org/abs/2506.01845 (1/n)

www.nature.com/articles/350... Ted Chiang. Catching crumbs from the table. Nature 405, 517 (2000). My favorite sci-fi short, which surprisingly well-summarizes what I actually do nowadays. I bet self-supervised speech models contain undiscovered theories on phonetics and phonology.

It's good to finally have a good reference for this stuff! Kudos to the authors. arxiv.org/abs/2501.18374

Can self-supervised models 🤖 understand allophony 🗣? Excited to share my new #NAACL2025 paper: Leveraging Allophony in Self-Supervised Speech Models for Atypical Pronunciation Assessment arxiv.org/abs/2502.07029 (1/n)

New #NAACL2025 demo, Excited to introduce ESPnet-SDS, a new open-source toolkit for building unified web interfaces for both cascaded & end-to-end spoken dialogue system, providing real-time evaluation, and more! 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2503.08533 Live Demo: huggingface.co/spaces/Siddh...

More from inside NIH: Per a source with knowledge, for all internal research (of which there is like $10 billion worth or so), ALL purchasing shut down as of yesterday. That means gloves, reagents, anything involved with lab work, which means a lot of that work will stop.

Are you a pre-doctoral student interested in language technologies, especially focusing on safe, fair and inclusive AI? Our Summer 2025 Language Technology for All Internship could be a great fit. See the link below for more info, and to apply: lti.cs.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

📣 #SpeechTech & #SpeechScience people We are organizing a special session at #Interspeech2025 on: Interpretability in Audio & Speech Technology Check out the special session website: sites.google.com/view/intersp... Paper submission deadline 📆 12 February 2025

We are excited to announce the launch of ML SUPERB 2.0 (multilingual.superbbenchmark.org) as part of the Interspeech 2024 official challenge! We hope this upgraded version of ML SUPERB advances universal access to speech processing worldwide. Please join it! #Interspeech2025