Matt Coler
@mattcoler.bsky.social
Associate Professor Language Technology
Director, Research Institute
Director, MSc Voice Technology
Campus Fryslân, University Groningen
@unigroningen.bsky.social
Director, Research Institute
Director, MSc Voice Technology
Campus Fryslân, University Groningen
@unigroningen.bsky.social
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Forbes looks at how two young Poles created a startup that has established itself as the "voice of AI", outperforming giants like OpenAI in text-to-speech generation and reaching a valuation of $6.6 billion
But the firm has also been accused by audiobook narrators of exploiting their work.
But the firm has also been accused by audiobook narrators of exploiting their work.
How A Tiny Polish Startup Became The Multi-Billion-Dollar Voice Of AI
ElevenLabs’ computer voices are so convincing they could fool your mother. That’s both a blessing and a curse for the four-year-old company.
www.forbes.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Forbes looks at how two young Poles created a startup that has established itself as the "voice of AI", outperforming giants like OpenAI in text-to-speech generation and reaching a valuation of $6.6 billion
But the firm has also been accused by audiobook narrators of exploiting their work.
But the firm has also been accused by audiobook narrators of exploiting their work.
Reposted by Matt Coler
11.5 month contract position at Meta, perception of synthesized speech from a tonal language. Prefer PhDs with expertise in tonal languages us.meta.talentnet.community/jobs/b689da9...
November 18, 2025 at 7:17 PM
11.5 month contract position at Meta, perception of synthesized speech from a tonal language. Prefer PhDs with expertise in tonal languages us.meta.talentnet.community/jobs/b689da9...
Really enjoyed keynoting at the University of Warsaw “Breakthroughs. Cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences” conference last week. My talk, “Speaking Machines and Living Languages”, reflected on the history of speech synthesis.
inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/en/breakthro...
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October 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Really enjoyed keynoting at the University of Warsaw “Breakthroughs. Cutting-edge research in the humanities and social sciences” conference last week. My talk, “Speaking Machines and Living Languages”, reflected on the history of speech synthesis.
inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/en/breakthro...
inicjatywadoskonalosci.uw.edu.pl/en/breakthro...
Lab member Phat Do’s research on speech tech for Frisian is discussed in the NRC www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
@cite-cf.bsky.social
@cite-cf.bsky.social
Dankzij spraakwetenschapper Phat Do kan iedereen klinken als een Fries
Computers die Engels spreken zijn er volop. Maar voor ‘kleine’ talen als het Fries zijn de mogelijkheden beperkt.
www.nrc.nl
September 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Lab member Phat Do’s research on speech tech for Frisian is discussed in the NRC www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
@cite-cf.bsky.social
@cite-cf.bsky.social
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👉 “Good data management isn’t just about compliance or best practices – it makes your #research more efficient, more reproducible, and more impactful.”
Read our latest interview with @mattcoler.bsky.social to learn how he embedded #OpenScience into speech technology research:
🔗 edu.nl/wa6vk
Read our latest interview with @mattcoler.bsky.social to learn how he embedded #OpenScience into speech technology research:
🔗 edu.nl/wa6vk
Protecting voices, sharing knowledge: responsible data practices in speech research
Dr. Matt Coler is an Associate Professor at Campus Fryslân and Director of the MSc Speech Technology. In this interview, he tells us more about embedding...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:54 AM
👉 “Good data management isn’t just about compliance or best practices – it makes your #research more efficient, more reproducible, and more impactful.”
Read our latest interview with @mattcoler.bsky.social to learn how he embedded #OpenScience into speech technology research:
🔗 edu.nl/wa6vk
Read our latest interview with @mattcoler.bsky.social to learn how he embedded #OpenScience into speech technology research:
🔗 edu.nl/wa6vk
Our Blizzard Challenge at @rug.nl got picked up in the local press! lc.nl/friesland/le...
Voor het eerst spreekt een computerstem vloeiend Bildts. ‘Met ’e bloate bealig in ’e blaik’
Gerard de Jong, Phat Do en Matt Coler bij Campus Fryslân (RUG) in Leeuwarden. Foto: Hoge Noorden/Jaap Schaaf
lc.nl
August 28, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Our Blizzard Challenge at @rug.nl got picked up in the local press! lc.nl/friesland/le...
The SSW13 speech synthesis @interspeech.bsky.social satellite workshop starts today in Leeuwarden!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/the-speech...
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/the-speech...
🎙️ The Speech Synthesis Workshop Kicks Off Today!
Today marks the beginning of something extraordinary in the world of speech technology -- and we are proud to be hosting it.
voicetechnology.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
The SSW13 speech synthesis @interspeech.bsky.social satellite workshop starts today in Leeuwarden!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/the-speech...
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/the-speech...
Reposted by Matt Coler
Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.
How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?
www.newyorker.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Scientists have been trying to understand the vocalizations of birds—and discovering that the animals have intellectual abilities far greater than most people had imagined.
Real speech tech innovation means solving problems, not just creating cool demos that become someone else’s security nightmare…
www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-...
www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-...
OpenAI CEO warns banks of 'impending fraud crisis' from AI voices
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman delivered a stark warning to the financial industry Tuesday, cautioning that artificial intelligence tools capable of perfectly...
www.perplexity.ai
July 23, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Real speech tech innovation means solving problems, not just creating cool demos that become someone else’s security nightmare…
www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-...
www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-...
Interspeech 2025 Speech Synthesis Workshop prelim program is live!
See below for more info inc keynotes from Conkie (Apple), Wallenberg (U Helsinki) + Murthy (IIT, Madras)
Interested? See you @ Campus Fryslân - @rug.nl in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 on August 24th!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/update-spe...
See below for more info inc keynotes from Conkie (Apple), Wallenberg (U Helsinki) + Murthy (IIT, Madras)
Interested? See you @ Campus Fryslân - @rug.nl in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 on August 24th!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/update-spe...
Update: Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW13) & Blizzard Challenge 2025
Preliminary program is live!
voicetechnology.substack.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Interspeech 2025 Speech Synthesis Workshop prelim program is live!
See below for more info inc keynotes from Conkie (Apple), Wallenberg (U Helsinki) + Murthy (IIT, Madras)
Interested? See you @ Campus Fryslân - @rug.nl in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 on August 24th!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/update-spe...
See below for more info inc keynotes from Conkie (Apple), Wallenberg (U Helsinki) + Murthy (IIT, Madras)
Interested? See you @ Campus Fryslân - @rug.nl in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱 on August 24th!
voicetechnology.substack.com/p/update-spe...
Reposted by Matt Coler
We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
July 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We're hiring! Join us to work at the intersection of social interaction and language technology. Postdoc and PhD positions in my Futures of Language research group, based at Radboud University in Nijmegen, NL
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
Read more: markdingemanse.net/futures/news...
#linguistics #interaction #sts #emca #hci
🎤 SSW13 registration is OPEN! Join SSW in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱
Registration:
📍 With Interspeech: www.aanmelder.nl/164976/regis...
📍 Workshop only: forms.gle/Hn4NqmiJP8pt...
FREE Blizzard Challenge: forms.gle/vqtRSRuz1wEU...
More!: blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/r...
#SpeechSynthesis #SSW13 #Interspeech2025
Registration:
📍 With Interspeech: www.aanmelder.nl/164976/regis...
📍 Workshop only: forms.gle/Hn4NqmiJP8pt...
FREE Blizzard Challenge: forms.gle/vqtRSRuz1wEU...
More!: blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/r...
#SpeechSynthesis #SSW13 #Interspeech2025
Interspeech 2025 registration - Register
www.aanmelder.nl
June 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
🎤 SSW13 registration is OPEN! Join SSW in Leeuwarden 🇳🇱
Registration:
📍 With Interspeech: www.aanmelder.nl/164976/regis...
📍 Workshop only: forms.gle/Hn4NqmiJP8pt...
FREE Blizzard Challenge: forms.gle/vqtRSRuz1wEU...
More!: blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/r...
#SpeechSynthesis #SSW13 #Interspeech2025
Registration:
📍 With Interspeech: www.aanmelder.nl/164976/regis...
📍 Workshop only: forms.gle/Hn4NqmiJP8pt...
FREE Blizzard Challenge: forms.gle/vqtRSRuz1wEU...
More!: blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025/r...
#SpeechSynthesis #SSW13 #Interspeech2025
Recommended reading to delve into www.theverge.com/openai/68674...
You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.
www.theverge.com
June 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Recommended reading to delve into www.theverge.com/openai/68674...
Counterpoint: Ceci n'est pas de la nourriture but that is a pipe
May 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Counterpoint: Ceci n'est pas de la nourriture but that is a pipe
Reposted by Matt Coler
1/ On May 8-9, we gathered in Delft for the Technical Program Committee meeting of @interspeech.bsky.social . It was a very intense but fruitful two days. We are very grateful to the PCO TU Delft Events for organizing this meeting.
May 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1/ On May 8-9, we gathered in Delft for the Technical Program Committee meeting of @interspeech.bsky.social . It was a very intense but fruitful two days. We are very grateful to the PCO TU Delft Events for organizing this meeting.
Attn.: German speakers! 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Our MSc Speech Tech student is looking for participants in a fun study that takes < 15 min. Your involvement will help us advance speech synthesis tech for singing applications, which has benefits for accessibility tools, creative industries, + language preservation
May 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Attn.: German speakers! 🇩🇪 🇦🇹 Our MSc Speech Tech student is looking for participants in a fun study that takes < 15 min. Your involvement will help us advance speech synthesis tech for singing applications, which has benefits for accessibility tools, creative industries, + language preservation
Our MSc Speech Technology graduate Igor Marchenko was awarded the Ben Feringa Impact award for his cutting-edge research in whispered speech recognition ⬇️
Prof. Francesco Picchioni (FSE/@sciencenewsroom-ug.bsky.social) and PhD student Igor Marchenko (Campus Fryslân) are the winners of the Ben Feringa Impact Award 2025! 🏆
Both Picchioni and Marchenko have been working on impactful innovations. Read more 👇
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#Science #Impact 🧪
Both Picchioni and Marchenko have been working on impactful innovations. Read more 👇
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
#Science #Impact 🧪
May 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Our MSc Speech Technology graduate Igor Marchenko was awarded the Ben Feringa Impact award for his cutting-edge research in whispered speech recognition ⬇️
We’re psyched to be hosting the @interspeech.bsky.social SSW satellite event at The University of Groningen faculty Campus Fryslân @rug.nl — the 2025 Blizzard Challenge involves the Bildts language. More info ⬇️
Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025 in Leeuwarden, NL 🇳🇱
Theme: Scaling Down: Sustainable Synthesis for Language Diversity 🌍
📅 Aug 24-26, 2025
🔬 TTS, emotional speech, style control, multilingual synthesis...
🎯 Special Challenge: Synthesizing Bildts dialect
blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025
Theme: Scaling Down: Sustainable Synthesis for Language Diversity 🌍
📅 Aug 24-26, 2025
🔬 TTS, emotional speech, style control, multilingual synthesis...
🎯 Special Challenge: Synthesizing Bildts dialect
blogs.helsinki.fi/ssw13-2025
May 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
We’re psyched to be hosting the @interspeech.bsky.social SSW satellite event at The University of Groningen faculty Campus Fryslân @rug.nl — the 2025 Blizzard Challenge involves the Bildts language. More info ⬇️
Can’t think of a better way to spend a couple days doing the good work of science, and no better people with which to spend it.
Terrific organization, and perfect hosts! 💯
Terrific organization, and perfect hosts! 💯
And.... we're done for now. Two days of discussing papers and passing along papers to create the best oral and poster sessions. Great progress towards an amazing technical program for @interspeech.bsky.social 2025. Thank you to all the TPC members and our amazing "Mother Geese", our PCO!
May 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Can’t think of a better way to spend a couple days doing the good work of science, and no better people with which to spend it.
Terrific organization, and perfect hosts! 💯
Terrific organization, and perfect hosts! 💯
Speaking as an American: Mooi dat we wetenschappers willen aantrekken, maar kunnen we eerst zorgen dat Nederlandse universiteiten zelf kunnen overleven?
#academicsky www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/e...
#academicsky www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/e...
EU wil toevluchtsoord zijn voor Amerikaanse wetenschappers: 600 miljoen euro vrijgemaakt
Met een investering van 600 miljoen euro hopen de EU en Frankrijk topwetenschappers uit Amerika aan te trekken nu ze onder president Trump hun werk niet in vrijheid kunnen doen. Macron: ‘Als u van vri...
www.volkskrant.nl
May 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Speaking as an American: Mooi dat we wetenschappers willen aantrekken, maar kunnen we eerst zorgen dat Nederlandse universiteiten zelf kunnen overleven?
#academicsky www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/e...
#academicsky www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/e...
@michaelchesnut.bsky.social the #LinguisticLandscape of Warsaw is interesting, what with the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets visible within and across signage.
May 2, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@michaelchesnut.bsky.social the #LinguisticLandscape of Warsaw is interesting, what with the Cyrillic and Latin alphabets visible within and across signage.
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Spraaktechnologie inzetten om mensen met een #spraakstoornis een stem te geven of bedreigde talen te ondersteunen: @mattcoler.bsky.social (CF) en team zoeken het uit 🗣️
‘Spraaktechnologie heeft de potentie om ons begrip van technologische inclusiviteit te beïnvloeden.' 👇
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
‘Spraaktechnologie heeft de potentie om ons begrip van technologische inclusiviteit te beïnvloeden.' 👇
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
March 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Spraaktechnologie inzetten om mensen met een #spraakstoornis een stem te geven of bedreigde talen te ondersteunen: @mattcoler.bsky.social (CF) en team zoeken het uit 🗣️
‘Spraaktechnologie heeft de potentie om ons begrip van technologische inclusiviteit te beïnvloeden.' 👇
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...
‘Spraaktechnologie heeft de potentie om ons begrip van technologische inclusiviteit te beïnvloeden.' 👇
www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...