Speech Science Forum - Josh McDermott (MIT)
17 March 2022, 4:00 pm–5:30 pm

New Models of Human Speech Perception via Machine Learning
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Justin Lo
Abstract:
This talk will describe our group’s recent efforts to leverage contemporary machine learning to build neural network models of our auditory abilities and their instantiation in the brain, with a focus on speech and voice recognition. Such models have enabled a qualitative step forward in our ability to account for real-world auditory behavior, to understand its dependence on peripheral neural coding, and to illuminate function within auditory cortex. But they also exhibit substantial discrepancies with human perceptual systems that we are currently trying to understand and eliminate.
About the Speaker
Josh McDermott
at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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