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Speech technology has been advancing at an unprecedented speed due to the revitalisation of machine learning and ever-so-growing available data. Whilst speech technology deals with language, linguistic knowledge is used less and less in the process. However, using what we already know about languages may give us an advantage over the black-box algorithms. Making use of up-to-date and suitable linguistics knowledge can reduce the amount of data needed, save time and costs, allow the models to be more interpretable and controllable, and eventually may lead to new methodological development. In this talk, Dr. Cong Zhang will talk about how linguistics knowledge can be applied to ASR and TTS in various ways, in hope of bridging the gap between linguistics and engineering.
Dr. Cong Zhang is a lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at Newcastle University (UK). She received her DPhil degree from the University of Oxford. Following her DPhil, she worked as a TTS Linguistics Engineer & Linguist at A-Lab, Rokid Inc., where she worked on various tasks for developing a TTS system, and led a project for developing a Singing TTS. Cong’s research covers various aspects of speech prosody; she is also interested in bridging the gap between linguistics theories and speech technology.