Papers by Aidan Pine
Indigenous language technologies in Canada: Assessment, challenges, and successes (C18-1)
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Patrick Littell, Anna Kazantseva, Roland Kuhn, Aidan Pine, Antti Arppe, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker
| Challenge: | There are approximately 60 Indigenous languages currently spoken in Canada. |
| Approach: | They examine which technologies have been developed and which are feasible to develop for the 60 Indigenous languages spoken in Canada. |
| Outcome: | The proposed technologies are based on the existing technologies and are feasible for most or all of these languages. |
Exploring Cross-Lingual Voice Conversion Methods for Anonymizing Low-Resource Text-to-Speech (2026.eacl-short)
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| Challenge: | a growing number of speech synthesis systems clone a person's voice, a new study finds . a variety of voice conversion techniques can mask speaker identities in low-resource text-to-speech systems. |
| Approach: | They compare voice conversion techniques to mask speaker identities in text-to-speech systems . they build and evaluate speaker-anonymized systems for two Canadian Indigenous languages . |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods are compared with other approaches for using voice conversion to mask speaker identities in low-resource text-to-speech systems. |
Requirements and Motivations of Low-Resource Speech Synthesis for Language Revitalization (2022.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing research on speech synthesis systems for three Indigenous languages in Canada requires tens of hours of audio recordings to be trained. |
| Approach: | They build a system for three Indigenous languages spoken in Canada using 1 hour of training data and 10 hours of data to train low-resource models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system can produce speech with comparable naturalness to a Tacotron2 model trained with 10 hours of data. |
The Indigenous Languages Technology project at NRC Canada: An empowerment-oriented approach to developing language software (2020.coling-main)
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Roland Kuhn, Fineen Davis, Alain Désilets, Eric Joanis, Anna Kazantseva, Rebecca Knowles, Patrick Littell, Delaney Lothian, Aidan Pine, Caroline Running Wolf, Eddie Santos, Darlene Stewart, Gilles Boulianne, Vishwa Gupta, Brian Maracle Owennatékha, Akwiratékha’ Martin, Christopher Cox, Marie-Odile Junker, Olivia Sammons, Delasie Torkornoo, Nathan Thanyehténhas Brinklow, Sara Child, Benoît Farley, David Huggins-Daines, Daisy Rosenblum, Heather Souter
| Challenge: | This paper describes the first, three-year phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in preserving their languages and extending their use. |
| Approach: | They describe the first phase of a project at the National Research Council of Canada that is developing software to assist Indigenous communities in preserving their languages. |
| Outcome: | The proposed software will help Indigenous communities preserve and revitalize their languages and extend their use. |
Gramble: A Tabular Programming Language for Collaborative Linguistic Modeling (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | a new programming language for linguistic parsing and generation is available for free . a cross-platform interpreter is available on the web via google sheets . |
| Approach: | a new Gramble programming language is being developed for linguistic parsing and generation . the language is a domain-specific programming language that supports live group programming . a cross-platform interpreter is available for Windows, MacOS, and UNIX . |
| Outcome: | a new programming language for linguistic parsing and generation is released under the MIT license . the language is based on handwritten declarative code rather than machine learning . |