32.3247, FYI: SIGEL Speaker Series - Automatic Speech Recognition in Native American Languages

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Subject: 32.3247, FYI: SIGEL Speaker Series - Automatic Speech Recognition in Native American Languages

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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2021 08:29:30
From: Sarah Moeller [smoeller at ufl.edu]
Subject: SIGEL Speaker Series - Automatic Speech Recognition in Native American Languages

 
You're invited to the Speaker Series hosted by the ACL Special Interest Group
in Endangered Languages (SIGEL)!

TITLE: Automatic Speak Recognition in Native American Languages

PANELISTS: Jonathan Amith, Rey Castillo Garcias, Robbie Jimmerson, Lori Levin,
Emily Prud'hommeaux, Daisy Rosenblum, Shawn Tsosie, Hilaria Cruz (moderator)

WHEN: October 26, 2021  2:00-2:45pm CDT (UTC -5)

WHERE: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/98056424906?pwd=eVB6alBUK2ZZcndTM3VDbjQ2bGpCZz09

DETAILS: This is event is free and open to anyone! It will be recorded and the
recording made publicly available. By joining via Zoom, you agree to have your
voice and any image you provide recorded. We plan to provide English-Spanish
interpretation.

ABSTRACT: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) could help sustain, promote, and
advance research in indigenous languages of the Americas. However, ASR has not
been fully deployed in these languages due to challenges stemming from both
the technology and a lack of speakers to create, curate, grow, and code
software to satisfy the large amounts of corpus require to run these systems.

Additionally, many researchers working on ASR have traditionally not seen work
on endangered languages as profitable. Likewise, technology fields have shown
a lack of interest in learning what is needed to engage in a collaborative
relationship with these indigenous communities has also slowed the deployment
of ASR.

Despite these challenges, there is a growing interest from researchers and
native speakers in deploying ASR in their documentation workflows. This panel
brings stakeholders (ASR technologists, linguists, and native speakers) who
are working on these issues together to discuss current projects, challenges,
solutions, and visions for the future of ASR in Native American Languages.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Language Documentation
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology





 



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