The TEFLON team was glad to organize the Automatic Assessment of Atypical Speech (AAAS) workshop on March 5, 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia. Our workshop was part of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025).
We wish to thank our invited speakers for their interesting talks: Prof. Nina Benway for presenting “What is so hard about AI speech therapy? Evidence from efficacy trials”, and Prof. Ari Huhta for presenting “Automatic assessment of second/foreign language speaking: Review of developments for examination and teaching/learning purposes”.
TEFLON project results were presented by the Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish project partners. We also heard other interesting presentations. To end the workshop, a panel discussion was held on the future possibilities and affordances of automatic speech assessment. Overall, the workshop was a success, bringing together experts from different disciplines interested in speech and speech technology.
Thanks to all AAAS presenters, panelists, and participants – see you again soon!
Text: Sari Ylinen