Discussion on Wednesday 20th February at 6pm with
Roger K Moore, Professor of Spoken Language Processing, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Sheffield.
Ranjan Sen, Researcher in the sounds of language and language change, School of English, University of Sheffield.
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After some preliminary conversations with Roger and Ranjan last week I began to think about how although they are from very different fields, both of them work to construct voices that are in some sense artificial - either computer generated for use in technology (Roger), or reconstructing the sounds of dead languages and tracking phonetic change over time (Ranjan). And while their approaches have different aims I wonder if there may be some overlap in their methodology, and the insights each gains into how language is stored and processed in the mind.
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