Interesting links, 29/07/2026
Misc. interesting things.
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ISSN = {00978507, 15350665},
URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/522229},
author = {Martin Joos},
journal = {Language},
number = {2},
pages = {5--136},
publisher = {Linguistic Society of America},
title = {Acoustic Phonetics},
urldate = {2026-07-29},
volume = {24},
year = {1948}
}
letter-to-phoneme/m2m-aligner — Google Code export
“For example, according to legendary Massachusetts Institute of Technology linguist Noam Chomsky, the Aṣṭādhyāyī provided the first “generative grammar” in the modern sense of the word”
@article{ghosh2019elements,
ISSN = {00030996, 15452786},
URL = {https://www.jstor.org/stable/26816266},
author = {Abhik Ghosh and Paul Kiparsky},
journal = {American Scientist},
number = {6},
pages = {350--355},
publisher = {Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society},
title = {Perspective: The Grammar of the Elements},
urldate = {2026-07-29},
doi = {10.1511/2019.107.6.350},
volume = {107},
year = {2019}
}
Panini’s Structure of Grammar: A Blueprint for Algorithmic Thinking
“In many ways, Panini can be regarded as the world’s earliest computational linguist”
Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs
@article{
doi:10.1073/pnas.2520385123,
author = {Christian Bentz and Ewa Dutkiewicz },
title = {Humans 40,000 y ago developed a system of conventional signs},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
volume = {123},
number = {9},
pages = {e2520385123},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.2520385123},
URL = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2520385123},
eprint = {https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.2520385123}
}
[b]=[d]-[t]+[p]: Self-supervised Speech Models Discover Phonological Vector Arithmetic, arXiv, code
@inproceedings{choi-etal-2026-b,
title = "[b] = [d] - [t] + [p]: Self-supervised Speech Models Discover Phonological Vector Arithmetic",
author = "Choi, Kwanghee and
Yeo, Eunjung and
Cho, Cheol Jun and
Harwath, David and
Mortensen, David R.",
editor = "Liakata, Maria and
Moreira, Viviane P. and
Zhang, Jiajun and
Jurgens, David",
booktitle = "Findings of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics: {ACL} 2026",
month = jul,
year = "2026",
address = "San Diego, California, United States",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.537/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.findings-acl.537",
pages = "11048--11069",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-395-1",
}
Computer Vision Self-supervised Learning Methods on Time Series
OWSM v4: Improving Open Whisper-Style Speech Models via Data Scaling and Cleaning, model
Attention to Mamba: A Recipe for Cross-Architecture Distillation
The Hedgehog & the Porcupine: Expressive Linear Attentions with Softmax Mimicry
- Áindrías an Ime
- Eóin Ua Míodhchán agus an Sionnach
- Scéal Ghiolla na gCochall Craicionn
- Leadairt na bhfear mór
- Na trí daill agus an Chevalier i mBaile-átha-clíath
Cóipcheart agus admháil — text CC BY-SA 4.0
Vosk Language Model Adaptation
Analyzing Vocal Features for Pathology
Chunkwise Aligners for Streaming Speech Recognition
chdh/noise-syn — A browser-based web application for generating noise sound. Web demo
chdh/sin-syn — Sinusoidal Synthesizer. Web demo
chdh/spec-filt — Spectral filter tool. Web demo
chdh/spec-syn — A browser-based web application for generating short harmonic sound samples. Web demo
chdh/harm-syn — An analysis and synthesis algorithm for quasi-periodic signals, e.g. vowels. Web demo
chdh/klatt-syn — Klatt formant synthesizer. chdh/klatt-syn-app — GUI applikation for the Klatt formant synthesizer package. Web demo
How to apply for and get compute grants (for students)
SSVD-O: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Structured SVD for Speech Recognition
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author={Wang, Pu and Watanabe, Shinji and Van Hamme, Hugo},
booktitle={ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
title={SSVD-O: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning with Structured SVD for Speech Recognition},
year={2026},
volume={},
number={},
pages={16632-16636},
doi={10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462142}
}