Events
Here are some events that the Speech Research @ UoA group has been a part of …
Speech Group @ SST Conference
December 2024
Speech Group members actively participated in the 19th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, held from December 3rd to 5th in Melbourne, Australia. Link to SST proceedings: https://assta.org/sst-2024/proceedings/
ASSTA 2023 Newsletter
September 1 2023
ASSTA Newsletter that features the Speech Research @ UoA research group is out. Jesin James was the newsletter’s editor.
Third Māori Speech Hui 2023
June 25 2023
Māori Speech Hui 2023 was held on July 6, 7. More details here – https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/2023/06/28/maori-speech-hui/
LangSoc 2023
June 9 2023
The Speech Group organised the 2023 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, which also included a Māori Language Research Symposium followed by the main conference.
Māori Speech Hui and Technology Workshop in media
June 25 2021
Media release talking about Māori Speech Hui and Workshop: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2021/06/25/maori-speech-hui-aims-to-enhance-te-reo-through-speech-technolog.html
ASSTA 2021 Newsletter
December 1 2022
ASSTA Newsletter that features the Speech Research @ UoA research group is out. Jesin James was the newsletter’s editor.
Second Māori Speech Hui 2022
June 2 2021
The second Maori Speech Hui wos held on July 1 2021. More details: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/2021/04/28/maori-speech-hui-2/
First Māori Speech Technology Workshop 2021
June 2 2021
The first Māori Speech Technology Workshop was held on July 2 2021. More details: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/2021/04/30/maori-technology-workshop/
Peter J Keegan is ready to be a synthetic voice
April 18 2021
Peter has kindly recorded 831 sentences in New Zealand English. Our student Pallavi Nibhadhe is busy developing a synthetic voice with these recordings.
Speech group @LangSoc conference
February 10 2021
Speech Research Group members actively participated at the New Zealand Lisnguistic Society conference. Link to our talks: Jesin James, Isabella Shields, Catherine Watson, Justine Hui,Brooke Ross
Māori Speech Hui and Technology Workshop in media
June 25 2021
Media release talking about Māori Speech Hui and Workshop: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2021/06/25/maori-speech-hui-aims-to-enhance-te-reo-through-speech-technolog.html
Speech group @Hobbiton
April 9 2021
Jesin James preesented the te reo Māori code-switching detection system that is being developed by the speech group at the New Zealand AI Research conference @ Hobbiton.
More details: https://www.ainz.ai/speakers/