Most AI speech processing systems are developed using samples of monolingual speech between adults. #WEIRDbias

We hope the #MerlionChallenge at @Interspeech 2023 pushes the frontiers of how automated systems handle the diverse kinds of #translanguaging we see in the world 🌍

If you want to see better tools for #LangDev #Multilingualism #DiverseVoices and #GlobalLanguages then help us ✨boost✨ these posts can reach all the lovely #SpeechProc and #CognitiveScience folks!

I’m sure I have a bunch of #Multilingual #LangDev, #SpeechProc #NLP and #CogSci friends over here 🦣

We’ve prepped >30hrs of our English/Mandarin code-switched child directed speech for the #MerlionChallenge at this year’s INTERSPEECH
>300 files, >100 voices 🙀 (+ training data)

We’re looking for speech systems that can figure out which language is spoken when!

The #MerlionChallenge will see whose system does the best job 💪🏼

Join or help us boost the message: https://sites.google.com/view/merlion-ccs-challenge/