The University of Cambridge has one of the biggest speech research groups in the UK. In this episode, we have Dr Kate Knill and her colleague Dr Mengjie Qian from the Machine Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. Dr Knill is a Principal Research Associate in the Machine Intelligence Laboratory. She is also one of the keynote speakers at UK Speech 2023. Her speech is titled ‘Foundation Models in Spoken Language Processing: Time to go home or make hay?
In this episode, Dr Knill recapped her keynote speech with the key line for the audience to take away. Together with Dr Qian, she also shared her opinions about the big changes in automated language teaching and assessment over the past few years, as well as what it will be like in the next 5 to 10 years. We also discussed the potential to apply such automotive assessment techniques in the music field. In the end, they shared their vision about the UK and Ireland Speech 2024, which will be held at the University of Cambridge.

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