This document provides an overview of Jim O'Regan's recent work including teaching assistant duties, thesis supervision, and presentations given at two conferences. It summarizes his supervision of a master's thesis titled "Mispronunciation Detection with SpeechBlender Data Augmentation Pipeline" by Yassine EL KHEIR. It also lists two conference presentations: one in June 2022 at RaPID4 Workshop in Marseille, France on speech data augmentation for phoneme transcriptions of aphasic speech, and another in October 2023 at the University of Gothenburg on language variation in parliamentary speeches.

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2. ˈfoːniːm ɻʷɛkɪgˈnɪʃn
̩ fɚ ˈfan n
̩ ˈpɻʷɑfət̞
ˈjuːsɪz v
̩ ˈmoːɹˠ dəˈɹˠɛkt̞ ˌɻʷɛpɹˠɪzn
̩ ˈteːʃn
̩ z v
̩ ˈspiːʧ
dʒɪm oːˈɻʷiːgn
̩

3. Phoneme recognition for fan and prophet
Uses of more direct representations of speech
Jim O’Regan

4. Sidenote: I’m pretty sure my /əʊ/ is [oː]
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5. Overview
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● TA Duty
● Thesis supervision
● Speech data augmentation for improving phoneme transcriptions of aphasic
speech using wav2vec 2.0 for the PSST Challenge
○ Presented at RaPID4 Workshop, Marseille, France, June 25, 2022
● Language Variation in Parliamentary Speeches: First Steps Towards Robust
Phoneme Recognition
○ Presented at Nationella språkbankens höstworkshop, October 23, 2023 at the
University of Gothenburg

6. TA duty
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● Speech Technology (DT2112)
○ Jens Edlund
● Speech and Speaker Recognition (DT2119)
○ Jonas Beskow

7. Thesis supervision
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“Mispronunciation Detection with SpeechBlender Data Augmentation Pipeline.”
Yassine EL KHEIR
Examiner: Olov Engwall

8. Thesis supervision
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“Mispronunciation Detection with SpeechBlender Data Augmentation Pipeline.”
Yassine EL KHEIR
Examiner: Olov Engwall
Not online. Related paper:
Kheir, Y. E., Chowdhury, S. A., Ali, A., Mubarak, H., & Afzal, S. (2023). SpeechBlender:
Speech Augmentation Framework for Mispronunciation Data Generation. arXiv [Cs.SD].
Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.00923