Summer School 2023

It's a wrap!

The first Speech Tech Summer School was a hit! co-organized with Jelske Dijkstra (Fryske Akademy) and expertly coordinated by Golshid Shekoufandeh + Floor van Heerwaarden, we had 4 days of speech tech at Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen 🤖

🍻A special thank you to the workshop hosts who provided the fuel! Check out this who's who list of speech technology movers and shakers who brought their A-game:

- Rorick Terlou at Amberscript

- Mario Ganzeboom + Martin Andor at Telecats

- Aki Kunikoshi Maksym Kyryluik, Xiaoning Shi and Chuhan Wang at ReadSpeaker

- Vass Verkhodanova at Campus Fryslân - University of Groningen

- Sviatlana Höhn at LuxAI S.A.

- Loredana Sundberg Cerrato at Nuance Communications

- Lorenzo Tarantino + Talip Turkmen at VOISEED

- Jack Blanchat at Descript

- Richard Kilgour at TomTom

- Jenny van Doorn at the University of Groningen

- Johan van der Meulen 📚 at 8D Games BV

As well as Language in the Human-Machine Era (LITHME) keynotes:

- Daan van Esch at Google

- kiaer jieun at the University of Oxford

Above all: Thanks to the students! Their enthusiasm for this exciting field provide energy and creativity. 💯

Last but not least thanks also to Isidora Jurišić for helping us make this fly!

🫶 let's do it again in 2024!

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