Badr M. Abdullah, PhD
badralabsi.bsky.social
Badr M. Abdullah, PhD
@badralabsi.bsky.social
Computational Linguistics, Speech Technology

Postdoc @ Saarland University 🦉
If you're in Rotterdam for Interspeech, join us on Monday for the special session on Interpretability in Speech Technology

🕚 August 18th, 11:00 AM

📍Dock 15

🎙️ 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞 by 𝑃𝑟𝑜𝑓. 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑒𝑛 𝐿𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑢

🖼️ 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 for 15 accepted papers

#Interspeech2025
📢 #SpeechTech & #SpeechScience researchers!
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Karen Livescu will keynote our Special Session on Interpretable Audio and Speech Models at #Interspeech2025:
"What can interpretability do for us (and what can it not)?"
🗓️ Aug 18, 11:00
@interspeech.bsky.social
Announcements
Keynote Speaker Announcement 🔊 30.07.2025 We are delighted to announce the keynote speech t`hat will happen at the special session! Speaker: Prof. Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Ch...
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August 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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📢 #SpeechTech & #SpeechScience researchers!
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Karen Livescu will keynote our Special Session on Interpretable Audio and Speech Models at #Interspeech2025:
"What can interpretability do for us (and what can it not)?"
🗓️ Aug 18, 11:00
@interspeech.bsky.social
Announcements
Keynote Speaker Announcement 🔊 30.07.2025 We are delighted to announce the keynote speech t`hat will happen at the special session! Speaker: Prof. Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Ch...
sites.google.com
July 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
New paper in Interspeech 2025 🚨
@interspeech.bsky.social

A Robust Model for Arabic Dialect Identification using Voice Conversion

Paper 📝 arxiv.org/pdf/2505.24713
Demo 🎙️https://shorturl.at/rrMm6

#Arabic #SpeechTech #NLProc #AI #Speech #ArabicDialects #Interspeech2025 #ArabicNLP
June 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Today is #Interspeech2025 deadline

Don't forgot to submit your work to the special session on Interpretability in Audio & Speech Technology, if it fits the theme

We are looking forward to see exciting submissions ✨

#SpeechTech #SpeechScience
📣 #SpeechTech & #SpeechScience people

We are organizing a special session at #Interspeech2025 on: Interpretability in Audio & Speech Technology

Check out the special session website: sites.google.com/view/intersp...

Paper submission deadline 📆 12 February 2025
February 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Humans vs Ants: Problem-solving Skills
December 25, 2024 at 5:12 PM
Reposted by Badr M. Abdullah, PhD
Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025
December 16, 2024 at 8:01 PM
📣 #SpeechTech & #SpeechScience people

We are organizing a special session at #Interspeech2025 on: Interpretability in Audio & Speech Technology

Check out the special session website: sites.google.com/view/intersp...

Paper submission deadline 📆 12 February 2025
December 6, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Reposted by Badr M. Abdullah, PhD
Another question to the speech community here: Which paper is considered to be the first paper on speech recognition that used DNNs?
This one: Acoustic Modeling using Deep Belief Networks
Abdel-rahman Mohamed, George E. Dahl, and Geoffrey Hinton? IEEE TASLP

or another...?
December 3, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Damn Duo!

I did not need a reminder of that 😅

#Duolingo
December 2, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP - work led by @mariusmosbach.bsky.social, and done in collaboration with Tomás Vergara-Browne and Mor Geva
aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-m...
From Insights to Actions: The Impact of Interpretability and Analysis Research on NLP
Marius Mosbach, Vagrant Gautam, Tomás Vergara Browne, Dietrich Klakow, Mor Geva. Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. 2024.
aclanthology.org
November 8, 2024 at 11:25 PM
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I've started putting together a starter pack with people working on Speech Technology and Speech Science: go.bsky.app/BQ7mbkA

(Self-)nominations welcome!
November 19, 2024 at 11:13 AM