Herman Kamper
@HermanKamper
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Stellenbosch, South Africa
Joined December 2015
I gave my inaugural lecture for becoming a professor on Tuesday. (Link below.) With so many unexpected messages of encouragement and well wishes, it felt like my birthday! Thanks to everyone who's been part of this journey. I am truly blessed. https://t.co/d11TyGLsJl
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📢 Join our Conversational AI Reading Group! 📅 Thursday, June 5th | 11 AM - 12 PM EST 🎙 Speaker: Herman Kamper (@HermanKamper) 📖 Topic: "Voice conversion and the geometry of self-supervised speech representations" 🔗 Details: ( https://t.co/oxEZtl9zYt)
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https://t.co/HLr6ytKuw6 Check out Leanne's ( https://t.co/vclZOTLNMN) paper on mutual exclusivity bias in speech-vision models (with @HermanKamper and @DanOneata) - now accepted to TACL!
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DeepMind scholar and PhD candidate at Stellenbosch University. Studying the combination of speech (audio) and vision processing. - LeanneNortje
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Really proud of @ArnuPretorius on being awarded the @DeepIndaba 2023 Kambule Doctoral Award for his PhD studies at @MatiesCompSci ! Congratulations to the winners of the other awards as well!
deeplearningindaba.com
Kambule Doctoral Award The Kambule Doctoral Award, held in honour of one of South Africa’s greatest mathematician and teacher, Dr Thamsanqu W. Kambule, recognises excellence in research and writing...
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Hierarchical Global Style Tokens - A Practical Introduction
rf5.github.io
A short practical introduction to the hierarchical global style token (HGST) layer occasionally used in speech processing tasks.
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Lecture notes and some videos for the new Natural Language Processing course at Stellenbosch:
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My AAAI SAS invited talk on unsupervised speecch segmentation
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A few highlights from @nlpnoah's talk at https://t.co/axQAhVOnm7:
@nlpnoah: NLP research and practice ask fundamentally different questions /1
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🚨 Excited to release a "living" version of the OPEN and interactive textbook "Theoretical Modeling for Cognitive Science and Psychology", by @MarkBlokpoel and myself. Check it out! And share widely. https://t.co/cEh24GGX1J 1/n 🧵👇
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It's @INTERSPEECH2021 next week, so it's exactly a year since my tutorial at @interspeech20 "Speech 101 - what everyone working on spoken language processing needs to know about spoken language". If anyone missed it (or needs a refresh), it's all here:
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Just a few days left to apply for an ML/AI DeepMind Scholarships at Stellenbosch University (MSc and PhD)! https://t.co/4K0oCJyQDR
@StellenboschUni @DeepMind
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AI and ML students across Africa, this one is for you 🌍. Do you want to take your research to the next level 🚀? Applications are now open for DeepMind Scholarships at Stellenbosch University (MSc and PhD) 🎓! https://t.co/yNXWHeHmpw
@StellenboschUni @DeepMind
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EdinburghNLP at #eacl2021 best paper awards: Congrats to @Yevgen_M, Sharon Goldwater and alums @HermanKamper, @c_christodoulop for two Honourable Mentions, and alum @riedelcastro for Best Short Paper!
2021.eacl.org
EACL 2021 Best Paper.
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My first time making video lectures: Yet another introduction to machine learning.Videos, slides, practicals:
kamperh.com
Introduction to machine learning
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The giant leaps in language technology — and who's left behind 🌏 Really enjoyed watching this TED talk by @kalikabali who eloquently summarizes the progress and challenges (bridging the language barrier) for current NLP. https://t.co/a8OPI53Pjh
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Thousands of languages thrive across the globe, yet modern speech technology -- with all of its benefits -- supports just over a hundred. Computational linguist Kalika Bali dreams of a day when...
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