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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

If you're in Rotterdam for Interspeech, join us on Monday for the special session on Interpretability in Speech Technology 🕚 August 18th, 11:00 AM 📍Dock 15 🎙️ 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 by 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓. 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑢 🖼️ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 for 15 accepted papers #Interspeech2025

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a-krishnan.bsky.social @a-krishnan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

📢 #SpeechTech & #SpeechScience researchers! We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Karen Livescu will keynote our Special Session on Interpretable Audio and Speech Models at #Interspeech2025: "What can interpretability do for us (and what can it not)?" 🗓️ Aug 18, 11:00 @interspeech.bsky.social

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Keynote Speaker Announcement 🔊 30.07.2025We are delighted to announce the keynote speech t`hat will happen at the special session!Speaker: Prof. Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Ch...

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

New paper in Interspeech 2025 🚨 @interspeech.bsky.social A Robust Model for Arabic Dialect Identification using Voice Conversion Paper 📝 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24713 Demo 🎙️https://shorturl.at/rrMm6 #Arabic #SpeechTech #NLProc #AI #Speech #ArabicDialects #Interspeech2025 #ArabicNLP

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Today is #Interspeech2025 deadline Don't forgot to submit your work to the special session on Interpretability in Audio & Speech Technology, if it fits the theme We are looking forward to see exciting submissions ✨ #SpeechTech #SpeechScience

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Humans vs Ants: Problem-solving Skills

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/12/2024

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I wanted to show that you could ask these questions about pretty much any language (including English). But I'm glad you asked these questions because this opinion is very common among NLP practitioners and I'm curious how we should respond

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Shoutout to fellow organizers: Aravind Krishnan @a-krishnan.bsky.social, Francesco Paissan @fpaissan.bsky.social, Cem Subakan, Mirco Ravanelli, and Dietrich Klakow

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

📣 #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

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In a different universe: Why do we publish English only resources? linguistic findings?❌ weak due to focus on a single language support model multilinguality? ❌so why this specific morphologically poor language? Spoken by a large population?❌ why don't work on Mandarin instead?

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

That's rigth. It is just an NN, only one hidden layer

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Odette Scharenborg @odettes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Another question to the speech community here: Which paper is considered to be the first paper on speech recognition that used DNNs? This one: Acoustic Modeling using Deep Belief Networks Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George E. Dahl, and Geoffrey Hinton? IEEE TASLP or another...?

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It depends on what you mean by speech recognition If you have a broad definition, you could back to 1980s 😁 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I am working on speech translation nowadays, does that count as MT? 😁

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Damn Duo! I did not need a reminder of that 😅 #Duolingo

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Nah I don't like question answering. For answers please see Yoav Goldberg's comment

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Not this bit. But "So far it seems they [LLMs] have been a great toy." is indeed a controversial opinion Yoav Goldberg answered Zerak's question in his comment (from an NLP practioner's perspective), although LLMs are not just for NLP stuff

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Badr M. Abdullah, PhD @badralabsi.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Do you seriously mean that or you intentionally wrote a controversial opinion so people come and attack you? 😁

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Vagrant Gautam @dippedrusk.com · 08/11/2024

From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP - work led by @mariusmosbach.bsky.social, and done in collaboration with Tomás Vergara-Browne and Mor Geva aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...

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From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP

Marius Mosbach, Vagrant Gautam, Tomás Vergara Browne, Dietrich Klakow, Mor Geva. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.

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Grzegorz Chrupała @grzegorz.chrupala.me · 19/11/2024

I've started putting together a starter pack with people working on Speech Technology and Speech Science: go.bsky.app/BQ7mbkA (Self-)nominations welcome!

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