Mark Liberman

From Human Language Technology to Human Language Science

2016

Thirty years ago, in order to get past roadblocks in Machine Translation and Automatic Speech Recognition, DARPA invented a new way to organize and manage technological R&D : a “common task” is defined by a …

Neural Representations for Modeling Variation in English Speech.

2020 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Variation in speech is often represented and investigated using phonetic transcriptions, but transcribing speech is time-consuming and error prone. To create reliable representations of speech independent from phonetic transcriptions, we investigate the extraction of acoustic …