Jess Alexander
@je55bot.bsky.social
Linguaphile, data nerd, 🧠 geek. Subrident problem solving and forays into affective neurolinguistics. 🏃♀️
Heading out to @snlmtg.bsky.social to geek out with other neurolinguists this weekend. If you are interested in emotional prosody, speech intelligibility, and/or vocoded speech, come visit my poster (B68) on Friday afternoon! 🧠 🤓
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Heading out to @snlmtg.bsky.social to geek out with other neurolinguists this weekend. If you are interested in emotional prosody, speech intelligibility, and/or vocoded speech, come visit my poster (B68) on Friday afternoon! 🧠 🤓
Reposted by Jess Alexander
🚨 Just over a week left to register for the #CNSP2025 Online Workshop (details in post below)! 🚨
Link to the workshop registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Link to the workshop registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 22, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🚨 Just over a week left to register for the #CNSP2025 Online Workshop (details in post below)! 🚨
Link to the workshop registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Link to the workshop registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
The less background noise, the better humans can understand speech. Some speech-to-text models perform similarly. But what happens when the speaker's voice is imbued with emotion? I was curious, so I did a simple mini investigation. The results surprised me! 🤓 github.com/jessb0t/emoSPIN
GitHub - jessb0t/emoSPIN: project | comparing humans and LLMs on decoding emotional speech in noise
project | comparing humans and LLMs on decoding emotional speech in noise - jessb0t/emoSPIN
github.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The less background noise, the better humans can understand speech. Some speech-to-text models perform similarly. But what happens when the speaker's voice is imbued with emotion? I was curious, so I did a simple mini investigation. The results surprised me! 🤓 github.com/jessb0t/emoSPIN
And many more… 🎶
June 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
And many more… 🎶
Reposted by Jess Alexander
The deadline has been extended to the 10th June. There are still a couple of spots available. Apply before it's sold out! EEG/fNIRS/hyperscanning/TRFs/Speech/Music/Ping pong!
Reminder: early bird registration for the CNSP Hackathon ends in 5 days (31 May), so if you are thinking of joining us in Maastricht on 12-14 September, please register before the deadline to avail of the offer!
🚨 In other exciting news, the first ever CNSP Hackathon will take place this year in Maastricht, Netherlands on 12-14 September, just before the International Conference on Auditory Cortex (ICAC)!!
For more info and to register before the early bird deadline, go to: cnspworkshop.net/hackathon.html
For more info and to register before the early bird deadline, go to: cnspworkshop.net/hackathon.html
June 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
The deadline has been extended to the 10th June. There are still a couple of spots available. Apply before it's sold out! EEG/fNIRS/hyperscanning/TRFs/Speech/Music/Ping pong!
Officially out in JASA!
Paper: doi.org/10.1121/10.0036812
Data+Code: osf.io/g4kyh/
A short 🧵 below with details... (1/8)
Paper: doi.org/10.1121/10.0036812
Data+Code: osf.io/g4kyh/
A short 🧵 below with details... (1/8)
High-arousal emotional speech enhances speech intelligibility and emotion recognition in noise
Prosodic and voice quality modulations of the speech signal offer acoustic cues to the emotional state of the speaker. In quiet, listeners are highly adept at i
doi.org
June 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Officially out in JASA!
Paper: doi.org/10.1121/10.0036812
Data+Code: osf.io/g4kyh/
A short 🧵 below with details... (1/8)
Paper: doi.org/10.1121/10.0036812
Data+Code: osf.io/g4kyh/
A short 🧵 below with details... (1/8)
Don’t miss this year’s CNSP workshop! Also, if you are a predoctoral or postdoctoral scholar, consider submitting a proposal for a methods tutorial! Submission form here: tinyurl.com/submit-cnsp-tutorial. 🧠🧑💻💡
🚨Registration now open for #CNSP2025 Workshop!
Date: 2–3 September 2025
Location: Online (Zoom)
Registration Fee: €30 (financial support available)
Registration Deadline: 31 August 2025
For more information and to register, follow the link: cnspworkshop.net/workshops.html
Date: 2–3 September 2025
Location: Online (Zoom)
Registration Fee: €30 (financial support available)
Registration Deadline: 31 August 2025
For more information and to register, follow the link: cnspworkshop.net/workshops.html
May 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Don’t miss this year’s CNSP workshop! Also, if you are a predoctoral or postdoctoral scholar, consider submitting a proposal for a methods tutorial! Submission form here: tinyurl.com/submit-cnsp-tutorial. 🧠🧑💻💡
This epitomizes why I love scientists. Oh, and chefs. 🧑🔬🧑🍳
1/n Some time ago my colleague, excellent cook, and friend Ivan told me: "Cacio e pepe is the recipe that I screw up more often. Let's make a project studying systematically the physics of that sauce".
Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536
Prepare to get cheesy, I'm glad to share the Cacio e paper preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2501.00536
January 11, 2025 at 10:39 PM
This epitomizes why I love scientists. Oh, and chefs. 🧑🔬🧑🍳
😂😂🤓😂😂
December 17, 2024 at 12:15 AM
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This is great fun! Each round is a head-to-head between models that listen to your audio prompt and respond in text. Then you pick the winner. And, all the while, you contribute to 🗣️ AI research!
My first bluesky post will be for my first project as a postdoc at Stanford.
Talk Arena is our first step towards building audio LMs into interactive agents. Try it out and let me know what you think. talkarena.org
Talk Arena is our first step towards building audio LMs into interactive agents. Try it out and let me know what you think. talkarena.org
Talk Arena
Interactive evaluation for audio models
talkarena.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:00 PM
This is great fun! Each round is a head-to-head between models that listen to your audio prompt and respond in text. Then you pick the winner. And, all the while, you contribute to 🗣️ AI research!
Attending #ASA187 hosted by @acousticsorg? Come check out my flashtalk in tomorrow's Suprasegmentals session! I will be sharing our recent results showing enhanced intelligibility and emotion recognition for happy and angry speech in noise, plus a dive under the hood of listener behavior.
November 18, 2024 at 2:25 PM
Attending #ASA187 hosted by @acousticsorg? Come check out my flashtalk in tomorrow's Suprasegmentals session! I will be sharing our recent results showing enhanced intelligibility and emotion recognition for happy and angry speech in noise, plus a dive under the hood of listener behavior.