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

   Mihaela Stoyanova
   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; 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 (Senior Project Manager in the AI Lab , 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 (Senior Researcher, National Library of Norway)
   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
   (Moderator)

   Khalid Choukri (CEO at ELDA, France)

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

   Q&A

   Nikola Ljubešić
   Senior Research Fellow at Jožef Stefan Institute, University of Ljubljana, 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 at ELDA, France
    (Moderator)

    Edouard Geoffrois (ALT-EDIC Director, France)
    Igor Szoke (Assistant Professor 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 at 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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