Labs of Ling event 2024
A big thank you to everyone who took part in the 2024 Labs of Ling event last week! It was a fantastic opportunity for the department’s research groups to highlight their work and for students to explore ways to get involved. Special thanks to UBC Speech and Linguistics Student Association (SALSA) for organizing! For more […]
ISRL projects featured by Acoustical Society of America
We’re excited to share that two upcoming conference presentations from our Integrated Speech Research Lab (ISRL) have been highlighted in the “Lay Language Paper” section of the Acoustical Society of America’s website for the 187th Meeting. Check them out below: 1. Listen to the Music: We Rely on Musical Genre to Determine Singers’ Accents Authors: […]
Exciting new publications from the ISRL
The Integrated Speech Research Lab (ISRL), UBC is proud to share some exciting new publications in flagship journals, including Nature’s Scientific Reports. See below to learn more. Shamei, A., Sóskuthy, M., Stavness, I. et al. Postural adaptation to microgravity underlies fine motor impairment in astronauts’ speech. Sci Rep 13, 8231 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34854-w. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-34854-w de Boer, […]
Nicolai and Lo win international pronunciation prediction competition
Garrett Nicolai and Roger Lo have won the SIGMORPHON Shared Task on Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for low-resource languages. The challenge was to develop a computational system that predicts the pronunciation of words from their spelling. Their submission trained on Adyghe, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Khmer, Latvian, Maltese, Romanian, Slovene, and Welsh.