26 May 2026 16h-20h (CET)
As a follow up to our first Whisper workshop, this second informal workshop is intended to discuss various approaches to probing audio neural models such as Whisper (Radford et al., 2019) or Wav2vec (Baevski et al., 2018). This is the Paris contribution to the Global Innovation Fund Research Award
PROGRAMME
16h Nicolas Ballier (UPCité), Gina Levow & Richard Wright (UW) : introduction
PART 1: METHODS
16h05 Guillaume Wisniewki (UPCité) Measuring distance with wav2vec & Whisper
16h20 Taylor Arnold (Richmond) Analyzing Whisper encoder outputs with UNICODE
16h30 Sara Ng (Western Washington University) Realigning Whisper output with human transcriptions
16h40 James Tanner (Glasgow) Analyzing Stops / VOT with Wav2vec
17h00 Discussion (coffee)
PART 2: CASE STUDIES
17h30 Behnoosh Namdarzadeh (UPCité) Whisper transcriptions for lesser-resourced languages : the case of Persian
17h45 Katelyn Mei (UW) & Anna Choi (Cornell) Careless Whisper
18h15 Gita Dhungana (UW) Nepali
18h30 Discussion (coffee)
19h00 Siyu Liang (UW) Analyzing Whisper decoder outputs across diverse language resource levels
19h20 Final discussion
19h50 closing remarks
20h end
zoom : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/86356943682?pwd=llaCqKu8aOajFauHBU36X6DDMddZcb.1
pw : 542839
room : 720
Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges
8 Place Paul Ricoeur
75013 PARIS