3rd Dutch Speech Tech Day

Monday, 10 February 2025

Location: Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Hilversum

The 3rd Dutch Speech Tech Day will take place on Monday February 10, 2025 at Beeld & Geluid in Hilversum. Building on the success of the Dutch Speech Tech Days in 2023 and 2024—which brought together over 100 participants from academia, organisations, and industry—this year's event promises to be even more impactful.

The 2025 theme is:

Speech in Context: Advancing Technology for Diverse Human Communication

Keynote speaker is: Prof. Antal van den Bosch

The Dutch Speech Tech Day connects students, researchers, developers and users of speech technology in the Netherlands. It is an opportunity for participants to learn about the cutting-edge in this field, get informed about new developments, and build networks for collaboration. The Dutch Speech Tech Day is for all people interested in and working on speech technology.

Students can learn about developments in industry and build networks.
Researchers can engage with breakthrough science and find team members for new collaborations.
Developers and users can connect with scientists and industry around topics of shared interest.

As a speech technology community in The Netherlands—including researchers, industry partners and users—we must adopt a critical perspective on mainstream speech technology, which often overlooks the diversity in speech, the rich layers of meaning conveyed through spoken communication, and the subtleties embedded within the speech signal. From pathological speech analysis to non-verbal vocalisations, we need to explore how speech technology can better serve diverse communication needs. This includes addressing challenges stemming from speaker characteristics, multilingual contexts, and varying situational demands in human-machine interaction.

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Organisers:

Stichting Open Spraaktechnologie