- Teflon at Fonetik 2024We presented our data collection at Fonetik 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden. The conference also hosted a symposium in celebration of Björn Lindblom 90th birthday. The abstract can be found here: https://zenodo.org/records/11396068
- Teflon at LREC-Coling 2024, Torino, ItalyWe presented our data collection effort at the international conference on language resources and evaluation combined with the international conference on computational linguistics (LREC-Coling) in Turin, Italy. The work was well received and we had the possibility …
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- Third face-to-face TEFLON meeting in Stockholm, March 2024Our third face-to-face meeting within the TEFLON project took place in Stockholm, March 20-22. Sofia hosted the meeting at Karolinska Institutet, and the research team got to try out both the Huddinge and the Solna campus of …
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- Challenges collecting and sharing speech data from childrenThe research and development that we carry out in the Teflon project relies on collections of speech recordings from foreign children who learn to speak the Nordic languages and from Swedish children with speech sound disorder. This …
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- Aalto’s participation in the ACM Multimedia 2023 Computational Paralinguistics and Multimodal Sentiment Analysis ChallengeThe Computational Paralinguistics Challenge (ComParE) was organized as part of the ACM Multimedia 2023 conference. The annual challenge deals with states and traits of individuals as manifested in their speech and further signals’ properties. Each year, the …
- OSALLISTUJIA KAIVATAAN TUTKIMUKSEEN SUOMESSA (RESEARCH IN FINLAND)Hei, Etsimme osallistujia yhteispohjoismaiseen tieteelliseen tutkimukseen, jossa tutkitaan lasten kielen oppimista oppimispelien avulla. Tampereen yliopistossa ja Aalto-yliopistossa tutkitaan pelisovelluksia, joilla voi harjoitella vierasta kieltä tai matematiikkaa. Tämä tutkimus on jatkoa vuonna 2016 alkaneelle lasten digitaalisen oppimisen tutkimukselle, …
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- Data collection started in Oslo schoolsThe TEFLON studies in Oslo, Norway, focus on investigating how gaming interventions affect immigrant children’s development and language learning. We have recently launched data collection at schools in Oslo and surrounding communities. The study is being coordinated …
- Interspeech 2023Hi, my name is Xinwei. I am a second year Phd student within the TEFLON project. I was very happy and excited about attending the INTERSPEECH 2023 from 20.August to 24.August in Dublin. It was my first …
- The Pop2Talk Nordic game in autumn 2023Hi, I’m Nhan Phan, a PhD student at Aalto University. I’m part of the Teflon project, and my role is to maintain the Pop2Talk Nordic mobile application. Pop2Talk is a language learning game that allows children to …
- NTNU (Teflon) at NNL2POn the 12th of October 2023, Giampiero Salvi presented the work carried out in Teflon at the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P) in Trondheim. The workshop had a number of very interesting keynote speakers that brought …
- TEFLON at SLaTE 2023Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE) is a ‘Special Interest Group’ (SIG) of the ‘International Speech Communication Association’ (ISCA). After 4 years without meetings the SLaTE met again at Trinity College in Dublin in August 2023 …
- Second face-to-face Teflon meeting in Trondheim, June 2023On the 20th-21st of June, 12 researchers from Aalto University, Tampere University, Karolinska Institutet, University of Oslo and NTNU gathered at the Campus of NTNU for the second face-to-face meeting of the Teflon project. As for the …
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- Listening evaluationsHow does a ”correct” utterance sound? Written by: Sofia Strömberggson, Karolinska Institut An important feature of the speech training app developed in TEFLON is to provide children with feedback concerning their speech production. This feedback will be …
- Aalto’s team participates in the ACM Multimedia 2022 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengEThe ACM Multimedia 2022 Computational Paralinguistics ChallengE (ComParE) is an open Grand Challenge dealing with states and traits of speakers as manifested in their speech signal’s properties and beyond. At the start of the competition, the data …
- Teflon team presents at InterspeechThe 23rd INTERSPEECH Conference took place from September 18 to 22, 2022, at Songdo ConvensiA, in Incheon, Korea, under the theme Human and Humanizing Speech Technology. INTERSPEECH is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the …
- The first face-to-face Teflon meeting in Helsinki, September 2022In 5-6 September, 15 researchers of Aalto University, Tampere University, Karolinska Institutet, University of Oslo and NTNU (Trondheim) gathered in the Campus of Aalto University for the first face-to-face meeting of the Teflon project. The project has …
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- Greetings from Aalto University, Otaniemi!
Mikko Kurimo is the coordinator of Teflon and leads the research group at Aalto University. Prof. Kurimo has been the head of the automatic speech recognition (ASR) group at Aalto since 2000. He has led the group …Continue reading “Greetings from Aalto University, Otaniemi!”
- Researchers of Teflon project: Sofia StrömbergssonAuthor: trainee Elina Aittokallio, Tampere University Greetings from Tampere!In the following blogpost we will briefly introduce one of the researchers working on the Teflon project, Sofia Strömbergsson from Karolinska Institutet (KI), the largest center of medical academic …
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- TEFLON in TampereAuthor: trainee Kamilla Hyytiäinen, Tampere University Greetings from Tampere! One of the Finnish research partners of the Nordic Teflon project is based at Tampere University. In this blogpost you will get a brief introduction to the city …
- After the Easter it was time to get started!The 6th of April was a great day. All the Teflon team members from Finland, Norway and Sweden were meeting for the first time. The spritits were high! Thank you Nordforsk for financing this project! Planning is …
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