LDS Workshop on Speech Recognition Solutions

1. 1 Jul 2025, 09:30 - 09:35 (CEST)

   Opening

   Philippe Gelin
   Head of Multilingualism sector, CONNECT, G.3, European Commission 

2. 09:35 - 09:40 (CEST)

   Overview and Introduction

   Georg Rehm
   Principal Researcher and Research Fellow at DFKI and LDS Coordinator

3. 09:40 - 10:00 (CEST)

   Panel Discussion: Crowdsourcing in Speech Recognition

   Krister Linden
   Research Director, University of Helsinki; CLARIN Coordinator in Finland
   (Moderator)

   Torben Blach (Alexandra Institute, Denmark)
   Cristian Brasoveanu (Head of Innovation Sector, DGT, AI-based services, European Commission)

4. 10:00 - 10:10 (CEST)

   Q&A

   Krister Linden
   Research Director, University of Helsinki; CLARIN Coordinator in Finland
   (Moderator)

5. 10:10 - 10:30 (CEST)

   Panel Discussion: Collaboration with National broadcasters

   Arantza del Pozo
   Head of Speech and Language Processing, Vicomtech, Spain
   (Moderator)

   Per Egil Kummervold (chief AI Developer, Norwegian Language Bank)
   Gediminas Navickas (ICT Consultant, Lecturer, Expert, Vilnius University, Lithuania)

6. 10:30 - 10:40 (CEST)

   Q&A

   Arantza del Pozo
   Head of Speech and Language Processing, Vicomtech, Spain
   (Moderator)

7. 10:40 - 11:00 (CEST)

   Panel Discussion: Leveraging Parliamentary Speech Data

   Nikola Ljubešić
   Senior Research Fellow at Jožef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; CLARIN Coordinator in Slovenia
   (Moderator)

   Khalid Choukri (CEO, ELDA, France)

8. 11:00 - 11:10 (CEST)

   Q&A

   Nikola Ljubešić
   Senior Research Fellow at Jožef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; CLARIN Coordinator in Slovenia
   (Moderator)

9. 11:10 - 11:20 (CEST)

   Break
10. 11:20 - 11:45 (CEST)

    Panel Discussion: Addressing Legal Aspects

    Simon Krek
    Head of the Centre for Language Resources and Technologies at the University of Ljubljana, Deputy National Coordinator of CLARIN Slovenia
    (Moderator)

    Normunds Grūzītis (Associate Professor at the University of Latvia)
    Leire Barañano (General Manager at Euskorpora, Spain)

11. 11:45 - 12:05 (CEST)

    Panel Discussion: Cost and Existing Funding

    Alessio Brutti
    Head of the SpeechTek research unit, FBK, Italy
    (Moderator)

    Ott Velsberg (Government Chief Data Officer of Estonia, Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs, Estonia)
    Marie Iversdatter Røsok (Linguist at the National Library of Norway, Norway)

12. 12:05 - 12:15 (CEST)

    Q&A

    Alessio Brutti
    Head of the SpeechTek research unit, FBK, Italy
    (Moderator)

13. 12:15 - 12:45 (CEST)

    Panel Discussion: Future Prospects in Speech Applications

    Khalid Choukri
    CEO, ELDA, France
    (Moderator)

    Edouard Geoffrois (ALT-EDIC Director, France)
    Igor Szoke (Pots-Doc Researcher at Brno University of Technology, Czechia)
    Luis Fernando D'Haro (Associate Professor, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)

14. 12:45 - 12:55 (CEST)

    Q&A

    Khalid Choukri
    CEO, ELDA, France
    (Moderator)

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16. 12:55 - 13:00 (CEST)

    Closing Remarks

    Philippe Gelin
    Head of Multilingualism sector, CONNECT, G.3, European Commission

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