CONVERGENCE Doctoral Researcher Kalle Lahtinen took part in the 36th Finnic Phonetics Symposium (Fonetiikan päivät) hosted by the Laboratory of Language Technology, Department of Computer Science, School of Information Technologies, Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia) on April 25-26, 2024. The event was supported by the ministry of education and research of the republic of Estonia.
The Finnic Phonetics Symposium is a conference series aiming to provide a forum for scientists and students of phonetics and speech technology to present and discuss recent research and development in spoken language communication. The symposium offers oral and poster presentations from a range of phonetics-related topics such as spoken language, voice research, speech therapy and speech technology.
CONVERGENCE’s Kalle Lahtinen presented a poster about the first steps in his research under the topic “Building a Naturalistic and Representative Affective Speech Corpus for the Finnish Language”.
The larger goal of Kalle’s research in the CONVERGENCE-project is understanding human and machine perception of affect in speech with a special focus in the Finnish language. The poster presentation focused on describing the process of selecting a representative subset of affective speech samples from a larger, unannotated speech corpus using a combination of machine learning based data estimation, feature extraction and manual annotation
