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Interspeech 2026 @interspeech.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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🧩 Diversity Committee Agnes Axelsson Berrak Sisman Francisca Pessanha ⚖️ Ethics Committee Matt Coler 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Committee Martijn Goudbeek 💼 Sponsorship Committee Chee Wee (Ben) Leong Bhuvana Ramabhadran Thomas Schaaf Jimmy Kunzmann Shekhar Nayak Cristian Tejedor-García

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

A documentary about the social impact of our speech tech research @rug.nl is in the works. — “Holy Fools” film crew interviewed lab members earlier today. Stay tuned!

A film crew interviews me in my office at Campus Fryslân

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Forbes looks at how two young Poles created a startup that has established itself as the "voice of AI", outperforming giants like OpenAI in text-to-speech generation and reaching a valuation of $6.6 billion But the firm has also been accused by audiobook narrators of exploiting their work.

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How A Tiny Polish Startup Became The Multi-Billion-Dollar Voice Of AI

ElevenLabs’ computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother. That’s both a blessing and a curse for the four-year-old company.

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

11.5 month contract position at Meta, perception of synthesized speech from a tonal language. Prefer PhDs with expertise in tonal languages us.meta.talentnet.community/jobs/b689da9...

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Really enjoyed keynoting at the University of Warsaw “Breakthroughs. Cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences” conference last week. My talk, “Speaking Machines and Living Languages”, reflected on the history of speech synthesis. inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/en/breakthro...

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Me, lecturing on early speech synthesizers in a beautiful wood paneled auditorium

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UG Digital Competence Centre @ug-dcc.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

👉 “Good data management isn’t just about compliance or best practices – it makes your #research more efficient, more reproducible, and more impactful.” Read our latest interview with @mattcoler.bsky.social to learn how he embedded #OpenScience into speech technology research: 🔗 edu.nl/wa6vk

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Protecting voices, sharing knowledge: responsible data practices in speech research

Dr. Matt Coler is an Associate Professor at Campus Fryslân and Director of the MSc Speech Technology. In this interview, he tells us more about embedding...

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Will reach out! Let’s combine with a guest lecture :)

A few ethical issues to straighten out about permission etc but this all moves ahead. I really hope we can deliver simmering relatively soon. I don’t see why not!

What you suggest could easily happen! Waadhoeke site already has Bildts content + we have working TTS models from Blizzard. Cloud Run deployment totally doable. Could be first AI-powered minority language municipal TTS service!!

We missed you @daanvanesch.nl ! There were many fun discussions and your name came up at least once when I was talking about Aymara with Alistair.

Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This challenge, related to the Speech Synthesis Workshop @interspeech.bsky.social event, was at Campus Fryslân earlier this week and was dedicated to developing a synthetic voice for the regional language Bildts.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 01/08/2025

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Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.

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How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong

Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Interspeech 2025 Speech Synthesis Workshop prelim program is live! See below for more info inc keynotes from Conkie (Apple), Wallenberg (U Helsinki) + Murthy (IIT, Madras) Interested? See you @ Campus Fryslân - @rug.nl in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 on August 24th! voicetechnology.substack.com/p/update-spe...

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Update: Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) & Blizzard Challenge 2025

Preliminary program is live!

Mark Dingemanse @markdingemanse.net · 07/07/2025

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We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci

Aerial photograph of Radboud University campus with the Erasmus tower in the foreground: tallest building in Nijmegen & home to the Futures of Language project. Source: RU

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

🎤 SSW13 registration is OPEN! Join SSW in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 Registration: 📍 With Interspeech: www.aanmelder.nl/164976/regis... 📍 Workshop only: forms.gle/Hn4NqmiJP8pt... FREE Blizzard Challenge: forms.gle/vqtRSRuz1wEU... More!: blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/r... #SpeechSynthesis #SSW13 #Interspeech2025

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Interspeech 2025 registration - Register

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Counterpoint: Ceci n'est pas de la nourriture but that is a pipe

Shelf display of Yfood meal replacement bottles with labels reading "THIS IS FOOD" in bold text. Flavors include Classic Choc and Smooth Vanilla, priced at €4.99.

A painting of a realistic pipe with the caption “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”)

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Esther Klabbers @esther-klabbers.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

1/ On May 8-9, we gathered in Delft for the Technical Program Committee meeting of @interspeech.bsky.social . It was a very intense but fruitful two days. We are very grateful to the PCO TU Delft Events for organizing this meeting.

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Wenn ihr Interesse habt mitzumachen, klickt bitte auf den folgenden Link: rug.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Vielen Dank im Voraus für eure Unterstützung der Forschung in KI und Musik! Gerne teilen oder bei Fragen melden. Email：Jiashu.dong28@gmail.com

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💬 Der Test dauert etwa 10–15 Minuten und besteht darin, kurze Audioclips zu bewerten oder zu vergleichen. Keine technischen Vorkenntnisse erforderlich – nur euer Gehör zählt!

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🧠 Eure Teilnahme hilft dabei zu verstehen, wie sich Trainingsdatenmenge, Sprechereigenschaften und Zero-Shot-Adaptierung auf die Qualität und Verständlichkeit synthetischen Gesangs auswirken.

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Hallo, liebe Musikliebhaber! Ich führe derzeit ein Forschungsprojekt für meine Masterarbeit zum Thema AI-generierte Gesangssynthese durch und suche freiwillige Teilnehmer (Deutschsprachige) für einen kurzen Hörtest, um verschiedene Machine-Learning-Modelle zur Gesangserzeugung zu bewerten.

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Attn.: German speakers! 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Our MSc Speech Tech student is looking for participants in a fun study that takes < 15 min. Your involvement will help us advance speech synthesis tech for singing applications, which has benefits for accessibility tools, creative industries, + language preservation

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Our MSc Speech Technology graduate Igor Marchenko was awarded the Ben Feringa Impact award for his cutting-edge research in whispered speech recognition ⬇️

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Asking chatGPT to define antidisestablishmentarianism and then asking it was time it is and then asking it to tell me a joke. I chuckle knowingly to myself. It’s 45°C in February.

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

We’re psyched to be hosting the @interspeech.bsky.social SSW satellite event at The University of Groningen faculty Campus Fryslân @rug.nl — the 2025 Blizzard Challenge involves the Bildts language. More info ⬇️

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Now that’s what I call a venue…

A large, angular concrete building with a dramatic overhanging roof supported by slanted pillars. The structure houses the Aula Congress Centre of Delft University of Technology. The surrounding area includes grass, trees, and modern academic buildings.

Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Can’t think of a better way to spend a couple days doing the good work of science, and no better people with which to spend it. Terrific organization, and perfect hosts! 💯

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Psyched to meet up with this all-star Interspeech team tmrw! See you all there

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

@michaelchesnut.bsky.social the #LinguisticLandscape of Warsaw is interesting, what with the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets visible within and across signage.

University of Groningen | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen @rug.nl · 25/03/2025

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Spraaktechnologie inzetten om mensen met een #spraakstoornis een stem te geven of bedreigde talen te ondersteunen: @mattcoler.bsky.social (CF) en team zoeken het uit 🗣️ ‘Spraaktechnologie heeft de potentie om ons begrip van technologische inclusiviteit te beïnvloeden.' 👇 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

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Matt Coler @mattcoler.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Interesting! Compelling implications for naturalness in speech tech