Odette Scharenborg

Odette Scharenborg

@odettes.bsky.social

Full professor of inclusive speech communication at TU Delft, The Netherlands. Mother of 3🌈

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Many strong Elman Prize candidates are never nominated simply because no one thought to do it. Please repost! Your share might reach the colleague who writes the letter. Deadline: Nov 18 👇

Cognitive Science Society@cogscisociety.bsky.social

Nominations are open for the Jeffrey L. Elman Prize! The prize honors mid-career cognitive scientists whose work shows scientific excellence and a real commitment to community building. Deadline: Nov 18 🗓️ Details and how to nominate: cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ #CogSci #Award

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#COLING2027 has joined forces with #EACL2027 and #NAACL2027 for the call for tutorials! 📢Joint Call for Tutorial Proposals (EACL/NAACL/COLING) 2027 🗓️Submission deadline: Friday, 2 October 2026 📝Submit via softconf: softconf.com/p/eacl-tutor... 🔗Full call here: 2027.coling-iccl.org/calls/tutori...

2027.coling-iccl.orgJoint Call for Tutorial Proposals 2027COLING 2027 Tutorials
Leonie Weissweiler@weissweiler.bsky.social

📢Call for Expressions of Interest: COLING 2027 Tutorials Tutorial chairs @microth.bsky.social and I are inviting expressions of interest for tutorials to be held at #COLING2027 in Macau in all areas of CL, NLP and related disciplines, in the categories 🚀cutting-edge, 🌱introductory, and 🤝community.

On May 8, we started a crowdfunding campaign to develop an app to live caption people with speech impairment to improve their quality of life and participation in society. Since then we have received many supportive msgs from potential users, their family&friends, clinicians, speech therapists.

This app clearly fills a large need. I feel humble that already almost 350 people have donated their money to our project, totalling more than 16,000 euros. But we need more to help so many people both Dutch and internationally to regain their position in society. They have a right!

De gasprijzen gaan door het dak en we hebben een watertekort. Toch stampen techmiljardairs als Elon Musk en Jeff Bezos stroomslurpende datacenters uit de grond. ⛔ We moeten nu de pauzeknop indrukken en de bouw van nieuwe datacenters stoppen! Teken de petitie 👇 www.fossielvrij.nl/stop-datacenters

fossielvrij.nlStop nieuwe datacenters!De gasprijzen gaan door het dak en we hebben een watertekort. Toch stampen techmiljardairs als Elon Musk en Jeff Bezos stroomslurpende datacenters uit de grond. ⛔ We moeten nu de pauzeknop indrukken ...

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Elk incident met een moslim wordt direct opgeblazen als maatgevend voor 'de' moslim. Maar als een dronken Nederlandse jongere een dodelijke ravage aanricht, roept niemand dat 'de Nederlander' een probleem heeft. Meten met twee maten is een nationale sport geworden. #worldpride #amsterdam

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“Van de 10 doelpunten van het NLds elftal werden er 9 door zwarte spelers gemaakt. Toch ontwaakten zij met een dubbele kater: van de gemiste strafschoppen én van bakken racisme en haat. Was hun kleur tijdens het succes goed genoeg om Oranje te dragen, nu waren ze het tenue opeens onwaardig.” 🎯

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And that's a wrap on #GITT2026 Thanks to all the wonderful people for attending, our brilliant keynotes and presenters for sharing their insights, and our sponsors for making this happen. See you at the reception! 🥂 (and maybe next year? 😉)

Great fun to be at @gitt-workshop.bsky.social - thanks so much for having me! And lovely summary of my talk! Credits where credits are due: I came up with the banger "speech technology is not inclusive but can be used to make society more inclusive" due to the interesting talks in the morning 😀

GITT 2026@gitt-workshop.bsky.social

After a lovely lunch break with lively discussion, our second keynote of the day, @odettes.bsky.social now presenting on inclusive speech technology at #GITT2026 🤩

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6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754

academic.oup.comGrassroots Women in the Populist Radical RightAbstract. This book investigates women’s involvement as members of populist radical right (PRR) parties. The latter have long been characterised as ‘men’s

Did you know that more than 400,000 people in NL alone have a speech impairment and have problems communicating? We started a crowdfunding campaign to build an app to help them! Donate & help people with a speech impairment to fully participate in society 😍 www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel...

supporttudelft.nlApp for live captioning of people with a speech impairmentWe are Yuanyuan Zhang and Odette Scharenborg. Together with our team at the Delft Inclusive Speech Communication Lab at TU Delft, we strive to make communication through speech possible for everyone.C...

5 years after our 1st paper showing that speech recognition (ASR) performance disparities exist for different Dutch speaker groups, we show that this is still(!) the case for state-of-the-art company-developed ASR systems. ASR systems are still not inclusive! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

degruyterbrill.comSpeech recognition performance disparities between Dutch diverse speaker groupsCurrent state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems recognize typical speech (very) well. However, recent research has shown that their performance degrades for “diverse” speech, i.e.,...

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Will #GITT2026 be worth it? If our brilliant keynotes are anything to go by...😉 Introducing @odettes.bsky.social Full Professor of Inclusive Speech Communication at 🇳🇱 Delft University of Technology. Human & automatic speech, combining technical x ethical x societal, just how we like it! Excited yet?

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Voor een artikel over ‘tweelingentaal’ zijn we op zoek naar (ouders van) tweelingen of meerlingen die daarover kunnen vertellen. Ben jij de helft van een tweeling en hadden jullie vroeger een eigen taaltje dat alleen jullie tweeën begrepen? We horen het graag: c.spotler.com/ct/m12/k1/K99...

The time line cleanser I didn't know I needed 😍

Natuurmonumenten@natuurmonumenten.bsky.social

Yes! De dagen worden langer én de voorjaarsvakantie staat voor de deur! 😃 Bij OERRR vind je de allerleukste tips voor kinderactiviteiten (zoals lammetjes kijken!), DIY’s, voorjaarsroutes en nog veel meer inspiratie voor het hele gezin! 🌸 www.natuurmonumenten.nl/kinderen/voo...

Is it the case that deadlines always clash with other urgent, time-consuming, last-minute tasks or am I simply more aware of those many urgent, time-consuming, last-minute tasks when I am also facing deadlines?

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Over 100 confirmed visitors to this conference, and there is still room to join for next week! Nijmegen, NL, 5-6 Feb

wimpouw@wimpouw.bsky.social

Academic publishing is broken due to for-profit actors. Time to explore alternatives as researchers → A Diamond Open Access conference, Feb 5-6, 2026 in Nijmegen NL. Free registration (limited seats): horizondiamond.nl Let's build a sustainable publishing infrastructure together.

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Are you a PhD student or ECR in language, gender & sexuality? Join me (an ed. of Bloomsbury Studies in Queer Linguistics book series) and Lexi Webster (an ed. of Gender & Language journal) for a FREE @lgas-baal.bsky.social online seminar on publishing (2pm 18 Feb) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

docs.google.comPublishing in Language, Gender and SexualityWe’re pleased to announce our next online seminar will take place on Wednesday 18th February at 2-3pm. This event will focus on publishing journal articles and books in language, gender and sexuality ...

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Anthropomorphizing language can be cute when applied to your favorite car, but it helps to muddy the discourse when applied to tech sold as "AI". New from me & @nannainie.bsky.social on @techpolicypress.bsky.social -- how to spot & revise away from anthropomorphizing language applied to "AI"

techpolicy.pressWe Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.PressWe share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie.