Listening like a human

Patrick Cormac English

This talk will walk through some of the overarching tensions between use cases in ASR (specific interactions with individuals) and aspects of current state-of-the-art methods used in building and training those systems (one-size-fits-all, big data, generalisation). The discussion will draw on a range of examples across ASR, linguistics, and the intersection thereof to highlight how current systems work, fail, and how they might be designed in the future.