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Interesting #INTERSPEECH2023 paper (I think ;-)) on using MOS scores vs side-by-side preference tests when comparing TTS systems. How to choose? Is one more robust/sensitive than the other? Ever wondered about that? Here is the paper: tomkenter.nl/pdf/camp2023_co… #NLProc #GoogleAI

Congratulations @heiga_zen Very well deserved! 👏 👏 👏

Friday afternoon... time for some rock & roll! 🎉💥🎸 This is me and a couple of friends of mine performing one of our own original tunes, live in a studio. It Ain't Easy Mount Turmoil — live @studiomoskou Video: @9uid0 youtu.be/qNJhpzwrC_8 💥❤️💥RT if you like it💥❤️💥

Dear authors of ***ALL*** papers I have been reviewing lately... Could you please increase the font size in your figures?! You might want to use the size of the characters in main text as a reference. 🎊🎊 Thank you!! 🎊🎊 #NLProc #TTS #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter

Ha ha. Spot on, is what that is... ;-) 🎉🏆🎉

+100 to that! ;-)

Of this is your topic, this is your ticket! All these people are great, so go for it ;-)

Q: If you add kernel regularization to a Keras layer while using a custom training loop... will this do exactly nothing at all (if you don't also add model.losses to your overall loss)? #AskingForAFriend :-| #TensorFlow #Keras #MachineLearning #NLProc

Mental note to self: if you add regularization to a network, you should actually add the extra loss term this introduces to your total loss or nothing will happen... Or you can just forget about it, and be mystified (frustrated) for weeks (like I was) :-/ #MachineLearning #NLProc

Last week we released an evaluation set with particularly tricky lines for #TTS systems: google.github.io/chive-proso… It was already used in #INTERSPEECH2020 and #INTERSPEECH2021 papers. Please retweet if you are into evaluation and TTS! ;-) #NLProc #GoogleAI #GoogleResearch

Credit where credit's due! 🎸🎉🏅

Funny thought: ML models are typically considered 👍 if they can predict what humans do in a certain situation. But the reverse holds true too. I.e., ML researchers are often considered 👍 if they can predict how a certain network architecture will perform on a particular task.

The review form for #ACL2021 had an "Ethics Review" section. I think it would be great if this would be included on all review forms from now on (@INTERSPEECH2021 for example) #NLProc #interspeech2021 #ethics #ethicalai #aiethics #responsibleai

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I recorded a mini-album!! ;-) It's available from: Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/46DV0… iTunes: music.apple.com/us/album/mou… Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/mou… Deezer: deezer.page.link/ZphqECL8cdj… and a whole bunch of other streaming platforms. Listen! Tell me what you think! Share ❤️

Ha ha. This thread... (Kind of) smart and (rather) silly fun ;-)

Thesis by @HarrieOos, all supplementary materials included ;-) #signofthetimes #UVA @irlab_amsterdam

Steenkolenengels (noun): if you English speak by just every Dutch word in the English to translate.