Here for all things speech 🗣, linguistics 🈲, machine learning 📉, & computing 👩💻. @UCBerkeley grad ➡️ Assistant professor @UCLA linguistics. she/her
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Are you teaching a course in phonetics or phonology this semester/quarter? Would you like your students to get some hands-on experience with linguistic research? Help us annotate [thousands of!] vocalizations from babies all over the world! zooniverse.org/projects/laac…
Also, after sitting on this for a very (very) long time, I'm finally publicly sharing the tutorial series I wrote on digital signal processing 🎶🗣️>👩💻>🔢:
github.com/megseekosh/dsp_tu…
I was scared to share these for a long time, because I'm not a trained engineer. I anticipate that my code isn't perfect, and I may have made some mistakes given that I'm self taught.
Back (temporarily) from a very sleepy Twitter hiatus to announce a couple cool new products (idk where I'm supposed to self-promote anymore, so here we are)
# 1: new paper showing that kids who hear "bustier" input have larger receptive vocabularies: osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/6x…
Meg Cychosz retweeted
we are hiring TT in phonology this year!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF0878…
The core qualification...[is] expertise in phonological theory. Additional qualifications... are expertise in phonological experimentation, fieldwork experience, and computational expertise.
Ppl in developmental labs: how do you allow caregivers to monitor their kids in the testing room during experiments? Wall-mounted web cam streaming to caregiver’s cell? Baby monitor? We had sthg more elaborate at UMD but it involved construction and I want to avoid that.
Sometimes I wonder if UCLA admin sits up at night concocting ways to put a damper on my research program: 6 mos to hire a research coordinator, 4 mos to get a vendor for audio equipment approved (not ordered. just approved), 3 mos to get an RA at another institution hired...
Meg Cychosz retweeted
Find someone who looks at you the way Scott Moisik looks at simulating self-sustaining oscillation of the epiglottis #icphs2023
I am grateful to receive a renewal on my @NIH_LRP award to study speech processing in preschoolers. It will cancel my outstanding debt, allowing me to buy a house. I’m sharing this to show a pathway to success in academia even if you 1) graduated with debt &
2) don’t have a privileged socioeconomic background. I want more people to benefit from this program! You forgo *years* of $$$ in grad school+postdoc and unless you can rely on sig. intergenerational wealth transfer, you must find a way to make up for it.
Also, TODAY (10:50) I'll be giving a talk in the @icphs2023 session on Big Data/Speech Corpora. All the greatest hits: acoustics, signal processing, machine learning, baby vocalizations...everything I sort of think I know about and certainly love. See you there!
I have 3 pairs of glasses...and I forgot every single one of them in L.A. when I left on this trip. I have an amazing colleague who broke into my office to grab them and bring them to me, but until then, I'll be that person in the front row squinting at @icphs2023 today!
L.A. is SO big—I’m not in nearly good enough shape to run/bike far enough and see everything.
I bike 20 mins to the beach and there are surfers coming out of the water. Like, real ones! That’s not just in the movies. My midwestern mind is blown 🤯
For the last year of my postdoc, I set my hardest training goal yet: learn digital signal processing. That was about a yr ago, and today it culminates in this ~monster~ of a paper that takes you from A-Z on channel vocoders: psyarxiv.com/yrqnu/
I've never been more proud of a single paper bc of what it took to get here: retook calculus, studied Lyons' (2010) textbook daily for ~3 mos, and best of all collaborated w @matt_with_ears & twitterless Matt Goupell who met w me weekly for an entire semester to teach me vocoding
Reviewer for a grant submitted by myself, @ronewman1, @RachelRRomeo, & @KatieVonHolzen left the following comment: “The team would be strengthened by including an expert on child language development, particularly parent-child interactions.”
I’m just going to leave that there🤣