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People are now regularly interacting with voice assistants (VAs), which are conversational agents that allow users to use spoken language to interface with a machine to complete tasks. The huge adoption and daily use of VAs by millions of people - and its increasing use for financial, healthcare, and educational applications - raises important questions about the linguistic and social factors that affect spoken language interactions with machines.
We are exploring issues of linguistic and social biases that impact speech communication in human-computer interaction - particularly during cross-language transfer, learning, or adaptation of some kind. In this talk, I will present two case studies illustrating some of our most recent work in this area. The first study looks at a case of cross-language ASR transfer. We find systematic linguistic and phonetic disparities in language transfer by machines trained on a source language to speech recognition of a novel target, low-resource language. The second study looks at a case of social bias in word learning by humans using voice-enabled apps. We find the word learning is inhibited when there are mismatching social cues presented by the voice and the linguistic information.
Together, along with highlights from other ongoing work in my lab, the aim of this talk is to underscore that human-computer linguistic communication is a rich testing ground for investigating issues in speech and language variation. Examining linguistic variation during HCI can enrich and elaborate linguistic theory, as well as present opportunities for linguists to provide insights for improving both the function and fairness of these technologies.
Event date: 25/03/2025
Speaker: Professor. Georgia ZELLOU (University of California, Davis)
Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
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- Communication and Language and Languages
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- Linguistics English language -- Variation Speech processing systems English language -- Spoken English Human-computer interaction
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Band 9.0 IELTS Practice Speaking Exam (mock test) - with feedback - Saskia (2) from Sri Lanka
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- ELC3421 English for Construction and Environmental Professionals
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- English Language
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- English language -- Spoken English
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Communication beginnings : an introductory listening and speaking text for English language learners
"This textbook is designed for advanced beginning-intermediate English language learners in an academic English program. It is composed of 7 chapters, each of which covers specific speaking and listening learning objectives and includes dialogues, interviews, discussions and conversation activities. Each chapter also focuses on 10 target words from the New General Service List of English vocabulary and reviews basic grammar points. The textbook includes an audio component that consists of recorded conversations of native and non-native English speakers, as well as links to additional listening resources on the web."--BCcampus website.
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- English Language
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- Problems exercises English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers English language -- Spoken English Listening
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- e-book
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Are you teaching English abroad? Then this is the channel for you! Mooncake will tell you everything you need to know about teaching English as a second language.From game ideas to classroom management tips, Mooncake has everything you need.New videos posted every Wednesday and Sunday!Teaching English abroad provides the opportunity of a lifetime to live, work, and travel while making a real impact on students' lives. But it is not only an opportunity to go and see the world. For many, it is also a career and a chance to gain valuable international work experience, treasured in today’s global job market.Whatever your reason for becoming an ESL teacher, Mooncake English is here to help provide the support and guidance you need.
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- ELC2S02 Serving the Community through Teaching English
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- English Language
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- English language -- Study teaching -- Foreign speakers English language -- Study teaching English language -- Spoken English
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VoiceTube started as a free English learning platform. We understand the difficulties English learners are facing and what they need. With the experience of supporting over 3 million registered users and analyzing their feedbacks, we created our very own special"Guided Learning Method".Hoping to offer a more efficient English learning process for our users.First begin with repeated listening practices, which helps the input of sentence patterns in your brain. Through the process of continuous imitation and correction, users will be able to comprehend and internalize the language. You will be able to memorize phrases and vocabulary in no time.
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- ELC1011 Practical English for University Studies
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- English Language
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- English language -- Study teaching English language -- Spoken English English language -- Study teaching -- Audio-visual aids
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English presentational speaking is important for students during their studies and for their post-tertiary careers. The goal of the Online Project for the Improvement of University Speaking Project (OPTIMUS) is to provide Hong Kong tertiary students with an online, self-access resource for the improvement of their English speaking skills. OPTIMUS is the product of a large UGC-funded project conducted collaboratively by HKU, CityU and PolyU. OPTIMUS is centred on a database of more than 60 video exemplars of authentic best-practice speaking from expert and peer presenters. The user interface allows learners a large degree of independence to tailor usage to their preferred learning styles and needs.
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- English Language
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- English language -- Spoken English
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- Others