Do you work with #voice or #speech#data? You might contribute data, write data specifications for collection, perform filtering or pre-processing, train #ASR or #TTS models, or design or perform evaluations on #ML speech models.
If so, I’d love your help to understand current #dataset#documentation practices, and what we can do to make them better as part of my #PhD#research
The #survey takes 10-20 minutes to complete, and you can opt in to win one of 3 gift cards valued at $AUD 50 each.
Research Protocol 2021/427 approved by #ANU Human Research Ethics Committee
#FinishedReading this fascinating look at how indigenous people around the world (but with particular focus on Australia) understand #astronomy , both for storytelling and for practical matters like navigation and tracking seasons - these are not separate concerns, as the stories act in part as mnemonics for the vital skills. Always nice to see references to #ANU scientists, in this case indigenous astronomers @karlienoon and Peter Swanton. #Bookstodon@bookstodon#IndigenousKnowledge
Very interesting post by Dr Zena Assaad, from #ANU's School of #Engineering, on how her views on the academic use of #SocialMedia have shifted, particularly in light of #TwitterMigration:
My #PhD colleague at the #ANU School of #Cybernetics, @Amirasadi, has a session up for voting at #SXSW in #Sydney about the practical implications of #AI in #HealthCare - benefits, risks, dangers - and how to enhance health without causing harm.
If you're inclined, I'd really appreciate your help in voting for his session!
(Requires login, but we all know how to use plus addressing)
Thank you in advance everyone, really appreciate it, #Mastodon family ❤️
Join us at the 2023 #ANU Research Infrastructure Expo to discover the state-of-the-art #researchinfrastructure ecosystem that underpins research excellence at ANU! The Expo is open to the entire ANU community and external partners.
Register: https://quicklink.anu.edu.au/rnyg
Just wrapped up my first week as #ResearchOfficer for #ANU Vice-Chancellor and President Genevieve Bell - and wow am I already learning a lot and meeting some amazing people 😍
First task: get the VC office up-to-date on #women & #leadership. We now have a woman in charge 👏💖💅
This was my first concert from an international band. It was at the ANU in 1997.
The idea of one of the biggest Metal bands ever playing at a Canberra Uni bar seems quaint, but that was it.
I had no idea about anything, and thought the support band was TOOL, guessing I just didn't know any of their songs. So I was surprised when they actually started playing a bit later.
Delighted to be able to publicise a paper that was presented at the @ALTAnlp 2023 Workshop at the end of last year, co-authored with my #PhD supervisor, Associate Professor @eltwilliams, and written as part of my research at #ANU School of Cybernetics.
Titled "Right the docs: Characterising voice dataset documentation practices used in machine learning", it combines both exploratory interviews and documentation analysis to characterise how large voice datasets - e.g. #LibriSpeech, @mozilla's #CommonVoice, and several others, document their #metadata.
Unsurprisingly, it finds that the #dataset#documentation practices seen currently do not meet the needs of the #ML practitioners who use these datasets.
We show, once again, in the words of Nithya Sambasivan - "everyone wants to do the model work, but nobody wants to do the data work" ...
Reid, K., Williams, E.T., 2023. Right the docs: Characterising voice dataset documentation practices used in machine learning, in: Muresan, S., Chen, V., Casey, K., David, V., Nina, D., Koji, I., Erik, E., Stefan, U. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 21st Annual Workshop of the Australasian Language Technology Association. Association for Computational Linguistics, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 51–66.
A little piece I spoke to, and which my #ANU#Cybernetics colleague, Lauren Pay, wrangled into coherence - it's about the history of #speechRecognition as a #complex#system - and how the ANU School of Cybernetics can help you learn how to interrogate and shape such systems.
Written to promote the school's new short courses.