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Michael McAuliffe

@memcauliffe.com
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Linguist, computational phonetician, recovering academic. Maintainer of Montreal Forced Alignment Sometimes my tinkerings are useful memcauliffe.com github.com/mmcauliffe he/him

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Eleanor Chodroff @echodroff.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
📣 Phoneticians/phonologists: CorpusPhon is happening again this year on June 29th at LabPhon in Montreal! Submissions due Friday, March 13th. Hope to see you there! sites.google.com/view/corpusp...
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CorpusPhon 2
A one-day satellite workshop at LabPhon 20 to bring together researchers using corpus phonetic tools
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CRBLM @crblm.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
‪ Day 2 of the MOTS Montreal Open Tools Symposium will include a morning talk by @memcauliffe.com Join us at the @theneuro.bsky.social September 25th & 26th forms.gle/j2pRYkyoBwMS...
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Eleanor Chodroff @echodroff.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
🗣️Mozilla Common Voice users!🗣️ Important notice: the client ID does not always correspond to a single speaker ID! Every so often, a single client ID contains more than one speaker’s voice. Our #Interspeech2025 paper examines the extent of this problem and proposes a solution
Interspeech 2025 poster on Quantifying and reducing speaker heterogeneity within the Common Voice Corpus
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...
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Chenzi Xu @chenzi.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Thank you the team at Leiden University for the opportunity to present on working with large-scale speech corpus. 🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/. #Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics
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Chenzi Xu @chenzi.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Hands-on MFA series on low-resource language Bora, based on fieldwork word lists from a single speaker (~1.5 hours!). #phonetics #MFA #forcedalignment #tutorial ⭐️ available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/3a...
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ASR from Scratch III: Training models of Bora, a Low-resource Language (MFA) | Dr Chenzi Xu
This chapter we focus on Bora, an endangered indigenous language of South America, primarily spoken in the western Amazon rainforest. I will demonstrate how to train a mini Bora acoustic model for for...
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Christian DiCanio @cdicanio.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
As a prep for my last lectures on phonetic fieldwork at the LSA summer institute, I created a youtube video guiding users through how I (quickly) mark phonetic variants in recordings. I’m happy to send along the Praat script (or similar versions on my website). www.youtube.com/watch?v=cggx...
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Phonetic variant coding - glottalized sonorants
YouTube video by Christian DiCanio
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The conference website for #LabPhon20 is now live: labphon.org/labphon20/home #LabPhon 20 will happen in #Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 26–28, 2026, with additional pre-conference events on June 25. The call for papers and proposals for satellite workshops will be circulated in late August 2025.
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Home | Labphon
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15/05/2025
Going to start calling Sam Altman "Sloppenheimer"
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
In @vauhinivara.bsky.social 's book "Searches" there is a lovely chapter reflecting on how hard it can be to avoid Amazon, but there is really zero reason to buy books there anymore, ever. Go to your local indie or check out bookshop.org
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Association for Laboratory Phonology @labphon.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
We're delighted to announce that #LabPhon20 will be held in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in the (North American) summer of 2026, with the theme “Looking back and looking forward.” Dates, thematic sessions, invited speakers and further information will be announced by the organizing committee. #LabPhon
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Morgan Sonderegger @msonderegger.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Linguists, speech scientists, cognitive scientists: Meghan Clayards and I are hiring a postdoc to work at McGill Linguistics, deadline February 16. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 27/12/2024
Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right? Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.
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Morgan Sonderegger @msonderegger.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Linguists! We're hiring an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in phonology (secondary specializations welcome) at McGill linguistics, deadline January 13. Come work with us! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Assistant Professor
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/12/2024
Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model. The results of a collapse could be catastrophic. wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
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Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Deadline December 16: Asst prof (tenure track), "phonology, literacy, or related fields", Comm. Sci. + Disorders, McGill University mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 16/11/2024
Can't believe they settled on "skeets" when "bleats" was right there
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a close up of a sheep 's face with trees in the background
Alt: Sheep bleating
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Check out the docs & intro tutorials for new-fave! #nwav52
forced-alignment-and-vowel-extraction.github.io
new-fave
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Deadline Nov 15: Asst prof (tenure track), sociolinguistics, Dept. of Linguistics, UC Davis recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06729
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Kathryn C-K @kathrynck.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
We're looking for a phonetician: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/OSUCar... Please share widely. I'm happy to answer any questions
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Assistant Professor
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Deadline Nov 15: Asst prof (tenure track), phonology and phonetics, Linguistics, U. Illinois Urbana Champaign linguistlist.org/issues/35.23...
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 11/09/2024
Anyone else working in "AI" have a serious disconnect when reading scifi/fantasy these days where they talk about actually useful/intelligent AIs? I have to do a double take anytime a character just assumes that an AI will do a novel task well.
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Kaylynn Gunter @kgunter.bsky.social · 01/08/2024
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
Deadline 10/1: 2(!) tenure-track asst profs, cognitive science, Dept. of Psych., Stony Brook U. apply.interfolio.com/147566
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 14/05/2024
Does anyone know if ASR models with transformer/conformer architectures (i.e. Whisper) struggle more with producing faithful transcripts for languages with scrambling since they aren't as time linear dependent? Like does Russian scrambling get undone by Whisper in favor of more common word orders?
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 05/05/2024
Watching One Piece for the first time and I'm just... very confused as to why people like this and what the point of this is? This should be comparable to Naruto and Bleach, right? But it just feels so much more lacking. Like what's the point of the story? (tbf I'm on episode 2 right now)
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 10/03/2024
@carlbergstrom.com pardon for the ping, but is this a corvid of some kind? I don't recognize it and I'm not having luck tracking it down on the Internet. This is in South Florida.
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Morgan Sonderegger @msonderegger.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
Deadline extension! Abstracts for CorpusPhon are now due Wednesday, March 13 AoE. We are also excited to announce Dr. Michael McAuliffe @mmcauliffe.bsky.social as our invited speaker. Hope you can join us!
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Morgan Sonderegger @msonderegger.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Join us for CorpusPhon, a workshop on Corpus Phonetics, co-located with LabPhon19 –– June 26 –– in Seoul and hopefully online! labphon.org/labphon19/co... Abstracts due Wed. March 6 Co-organized with @echodroff.bsky.social @cdicanio.bsky.social, and Marton Soskuthy
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CorpusPhon | labphon
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Eleanor Chodroff @echodroff.bsky.social · 31/01/2024
Join us for CorpusPhon, a workshop on Corpus Phonetics, co-located with LabPhon19 –– June 26 –– in Seoul and online! 👩‍💻👂🗣️ labphon.org/labphon19/co... Abstracts due Wed. March 6 Co-organized w/ @msonderegger.bsky.social @cdicanio.bsky.social Marton Soskuthy
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 02/11/2023
@tjmahr.com finally got around to updating the Anchor docs to be up to date: anchor-annotator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ If you're interested in doing some alpha testing, I'd definitely appreciate any feedback/bug reports!
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Anchor annotator documentation — Anchor Annotator 0.5 documentation
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Josef Fruehwald @jofrhwld.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
I’ve been having ideas about where FAVE is going, so I’ve laid some of them out here, in case people have thoughts/want to get in on development. github.com/orgs/Forced-...
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FAVE Development Plan · Forced-Alignment-and-Vowel-Extraction · Discussion #1
I thought I’d lay out my general thoughts about where FAVE is going. FAVE-classic & new-FAVE FAVE in its current version needs to be maintained and available both for researchers’ workflow, and fo...
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 16/10/2023
having fun with AI | www.patreon.com/Lubchansky
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 30/09/2023
Phew, finally got a basic pipeline that I'm happy with for a new Japanese MFA model. Uses sudachipy for morphological parsing with postprocessing to create phonological words. A G2P model and phonological rules create pronunciations from the katakana pronunciations from sudachipy.
Force aligned audio file for Japanese from recombining morphemes into phonological words and generating pronunciations as necessary with a G2P model and lexical phonological rules
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 21/09/2023
Deadline Nov 15: Asst. prof (tenure track), experimental phonetics, U. Alberta www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/...
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 10/09/2023
So. You need a map. Your editor insists, & the thing you downloaded from Wikipedia won't cut it. I can help! I draw custom maps on commission. My website has details about cost, process, etc, along with customer reviews: surprisedeelmaps.com Here are a few recent examples:
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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
Deadline Nov 6: Phonology, tenure-track asst. prof., McGill. mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Nicky Agate @terrainsvagues.bsky.social · 07/09/2023
I’m hiring for two new faculty roles at CMU Libraries! If you are — a research data whiz and open science advocate, consider this: apply.interfolio.com/131324 — well grounded in the social sciences (methodologies, resources, and data), you might like this: apply.interfolio.com/131322
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Michael McAuliffe @memcauliffe.com · 03/09/2023
Getting some good progress on diarizing the Japanese LaboroTV corpus since it doesn't have any speaker metadata. Maybe not the most efficient use of my time, but the interface for using SpeechBrain speaker recognition models and PLDA from kalpy is coming along!
Anchor annotator tool's interface for sorting utterances by speaker
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2023
Who needs Wordle and crosswords when you’ve got IPA dialect transcription
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