The DigiTala project organizes an open seminar on automatic assessment of spoken language skills on Thursday, April 13, 2023. The seminar takes place at the University of Jyväskylä, Seminarium building, Old Festival Hall.
The DigiTala researchers will present their studies as well as the automatic assessment tool developed in the project. Participants also get to test the tool on-site. The seminar will end to a panel discussion with two guest panelists: associate professor Helmer Strik (Radboud University) and associate professor Talia Isaacs (University College London).
The seminar has two parts: the language of the first part from noon to 3 pm is Finnish, and the second part from 3.15 pm onwards will be conducted in English. You are warmly welcome to participate in both parts of the seminar or join us only in one of them.
The detailed program can be downloaded here.
Participation in the seminar is free. Because coffee and snacks will be served, on site-participants are requested to register in advance by March 30.
You can also follow the seminar from the University of Jyväskylä's Moniviestin.
The Finnish seminar will be streamed here. Online viewers can ask questions via this Padlet.
The English seminar will be streamed here. Online viewers can ask questions via this Padlet.
The seminar recordings are available in the University of Jyväskylä's Moniviestin.
Slides for seminar presentations:
- Seminar opening, DigiTala project introduces themselves. | English slides | Finnish slides |
- Stakeholder beliefs: biggest fear or a dream come true? Anna von Zansen & Raili Hildén, UH. | English slides | Finnish slides |
- Acoustic features of L2 Swedish and Finnish speech. Heini Kallio & Mikko Kuronen, JyU. | English slides | Finnish slides |
- Automaattinen järjestelmä puhutun kielitaidon arviointiin. Mikko Kurimo, Aalto-yliopisto | Mixed-language (eng+fin) slides |
- Deep learning methods in L2 low-resource speech recognition and rating. Yaroslav Getman, Aalto University. | English slides |