Events
Here are some events that the Speech Research @ UoA group has been a part of …
Speech Group @ LingSoc 2025
Nov 2025
Speech Group members actively participated in the 2025 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, held on November 27–28 at Massey University’s Wellington campus. Learn more about the conference here.
Christmas Lunch
Nov 2025
On 5 November, we gathered in the Vice-Chancellor’s Suite at Old Government House for our annual End-of-Year and Christmas lunch. The celebration featured delicious food, a fun spectrogram reading competition, and a Secret Santa exchange!
Speech Group @ InterSpeech 2025
Aug 2025
Members of the Speech Group took part in the 26th Interspeech Conference, held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, from August 17–21, 2025. Find out more about the conference here: https://www.interspeech2025.org/home.
Speech Group Writing Retreat
July 2025
We organised a two-day writing retreat filled with focused writing, collaborative discussions, and valuable insights. The retreat also included two sessions on writing tips, delivered by A/Prof Peter Keegan and Dr Satwinder Singh.
Gibbons Lecture Series 2025
May 2025
Professor Catherine Watson and Dr Jesin James from the Speech Group delivered a lecture on AI-based Māori pronunciation tools and participated as panelists in the Gibbons Lecture Series on ‘Exploring the Application of AI in Education’ on 27 May 2025. View the lecture at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uETnq-El8l4
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/
LangSoc 2023
Nov 2023
The Speech Group at the University of Auckland hosted the 2023 Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand. The event featured a Māori Language Research Symposium on 28 November, followed by the Language and Society Conference from 29–30 November, both held at the Grafton Campus.
Third Māori Speech Hui 2023
June 25 2023
Māori Speech Hui 2023 was held on 6–7 July at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Auckland. This hui provided a platform for groups and individuals working across all aspects of Māori speech technologies to connect, share knowledge, and collaborate. More details here: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/2023/06/28/maori-speech-hui/
Māori Speech Technology Workshop 2021
July 2 2021
We organised a Māori Speech Technology Workshop – an opportunity for students to learn about te reo Māori speech and language technology development from industry experts and academics. 30 students from different parts of Aotearoa attended the workshop. More details: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/2021/04/30/maori-technology-workshop/
Second Māori Speech Hui 2022
July 1 2021
The second Maori Speech Hui was held on July 1 2021.
More details: https://speechresearch.auckland.ac.nz/2021/04/28/maori-speech-hui-2/
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
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/