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Daniel Duran
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 1d
Some #LLMs promise universal “speech-to-phoneme” transcription. At #P&P I presented first results on the special use-case of creative phonetic forms and discussed how well different LLMs perform on this task. Turns out: very poorly with horrendous error rates. home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025 #CRC1646
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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · 4d
Stop normalizing unpaid work in academia!
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Odette Scharenborg @odettes.bsky.social · 5d
13 PhD POSITIONS available in the framework of the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT MSCA Doctoral Network: ‘Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive mechanisms and Social Dynamics’

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Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive mechanisms and Social Dynamics | HUM.AI.N-ACCENT | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS...
HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an interdisciplinary research project that explores the neurocognitive and social impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions. With millions of new a...
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 5d
Second keynote today will be given by Melanie Weirich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): „Sex and the City“: Geschlechtsspezifische Variation im Kontext. What a great way to start the day! #P&P
home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025/
Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 5d
Some take home messages:
―indexical information and indexical dynamics are important in communication … and speakers do control it actively for different speaking styles, e.g. in infant-directed speech
―common approaches (lab experiments) in voice recognition research are not natural
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 5d
Male speakers leading in sound change? 😯
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 5d
Früsche Analysen zur Rundung des kurzen [ɪ] zu [ʏ] im norddeutschen Standarddeutsch präsentiert von Francois Conrad. #P&P
home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025/
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 5d
Früsche Analysen zur Rundung des kurzen [ɪ] zu [ʏ] im norddeutschen Standarddeutsch präsentiert von Francois Conrad. #P&P
home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025/
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 5d
First keynote talk by Volker Dellwo (U Zürich) at #P&P »Warum Linguisten und Phonetiker mehr über Stimmerkennung lernen sollten« ― Why should linguists and phoneticians learn more about voice recognition?
#phonetics & #phonology
Volker Dellwo at the keynote presentation
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 5d
Es geht los. Ich freue mich auf zwei spannende Tage in Leipzig bei der #P&P
home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025/
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 6d
Letzte Station der diesjährigen Konferenztour: Auf dem Weg nach Leipzig zur Phonetik und Phonologie Tagung #P&P
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 8d
Random quote 181:

“Very little knowledge is dangerous”
— Dr. Alban. It’s my life. 1992.
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 13d
Neffe-Onkel-Gespräch:
―N: »Willst du dreißig tausend Jahre alt sein?«
―O: »Ich weiß nicht. Ich weiß nicht wie man sich fühlt wenn man so alt ist.«
―N: »Man fühlt sich einsam.«
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 18d
Attending the The Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025) in Düsseldorf, Germany? Check out the poster “Do Construction Distributions Shape Formal Language Learning In German BabyLMs?” by Bastian Bunzeck and colleagues! @bbunzeck.bsky.social #CRC1646 #LINCC
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SFB 1412 Register @sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19d
Exchange between linguistic CRCs: We are happy about an interesting new collaboration on linguistic creativity and novel phonetic forms between Prof. Dr. Christine Mooshammer (PI of project C06) and project A02 from the CRC 1646 in Bielefeld! More infos can be found here […]
Original post on fediscience.org
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 19d
So are we from the #CRC1646 #LINCC A02 project 😀
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 22d
Letzter Tag der #GAL2025 in Hildesheim. Heute mit einem Vortrag zu phonetischer Kreativität. 😎
#CRC1646 #LINCC
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 23d
„Die Gärten alter Frauen“ — Für mich eine inspirierende, nachdenkliche Keynote von Anne Storch — über Sprache im Kontext von Vergangenheit, Verlust, Erfahrung, Hoffnung und Zukunft. Und die Frage: Was wäre wenn…? #GAL2025
„Die Gärten alter Frauen und ihre Beziehung zur Angewandten Linguistik“
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 23d
Ist es (immer noch) provokant zu betonen, dass Kommunikation multimodal ist? Und Sprache mehr als Text? #GAL2025
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 28d
Es geht doch nichts über Home Office 😆
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 28d
Nostalgie pur: nach langer Zeit mal wieder mit der S-Bahn nach Stuttgart fahren und zur Begrüßung eine Signalstörung zwischen Hauptbahnhof und Schwabstraße — inklusive Verspätung versteht sich. Ganz wie früher.
Random picture of my former neighbors' cat. You're welcome!
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 29d
“Developmentally plausible pretraining, now also auf Deutsch: a BabyLM Dataset for German” — Today I had the pleasure to present our German BabyLM dataset together with the first author Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social‬ to an interested and engaging audience at #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim.
Daniel Duran and Bastian Bunzeck at the poster presentation
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · Sep 11
“What does it take to raise a BabyLM?” Sina Zarrieß (and @bbunzeck.bsky.social‬) #CRC1646 talks about way too large language models and what we can learn, as researchers, from small models.
#KONVENS2025
Sina Zarrieß at the keynote presentation
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · Sep 10
#KONVENS2025 🙈
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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · Sep 10
Great first day at #KONVENS2015 today. Looking forward to another engaging day with a keynote by Sina Zarrieß tomorrow 🤓
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Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social · Sep 10
From conference to conference — after last week’s #semdial I am at #konvens in Hildesheim this week. I will be presenting out German BabyLM Corpus (with @simphon.bsky.social) and our PI Sina Zarrieß will give a Keynote on BabyLMs tomorrow. 🥳
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