Introduction Keith Johnson – Linguistics, UC Berkeley Phonology Lab @ berkeley Neuroscience @ ucsf Acoustic phonetics Speech perception Historical linguistics (Garrett) Phonetic neuroscience (Chang) NSF BCS-1147583 NIH R01 DC011295
Impact on current speech technology Training linguists - deploying ASR and synthesis systems - “localizing” technology Study a very successful ASR system: the human - some good ideas come from this - also get good ideas from technology
Lexical variation Spoken language variation Islands of reliability
High level comments - 1 Training Project oriented boot-camps (clsp.jhu.edu/workshops) Focus on diverse participant backgrounds Competition for topics and leadership teams
High level comments - 2 Intellectual progress Human language users both speak and listen. How to be a mind-reader? Experience as a talker. Learning: Classification Communicative success
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