ALOES2026 pre-conference workshop

ALOES 2026 pre-conference workshop

Pre-conference Workshop on Biases Inside and Outside English in Speech Foundational Models

Thursday 26 March 2026 (Université Paris Cité)

Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges

room 715 (7th floor)

16h-19h and on zoom

16h Introduction :

Nicolas Ballier (UPCité) a quick introduction to Speech Foundation Model tokenisation

PART ONE: BIASES OUTSIDE ENGLISH

16h 15 Behnoosh Namdarzadeh (UPCité) Persian

16 h 30 Eli Stafford and Guillaume Wisniewski (UPCité) towards a phonologically informed metric for substitution errors in SFMs

17h break

PART TWO : BIASES INSIDE ENGLISH

(17h15 Taylor Arnold (Richmond) exploring parity and fertility in the Whisper tokenisation)

17h 20 Erin Pacquetet (SCIAM) and Nicolas Ballier (UPCité) : phonological overlaps in the Whisper English model

PART THREE : Using Speech models to revisit Metalinguistic Categories

17h 45 Guillaume Wisniewski (UPCité) Speech Models Hear More Than Speech: Auditory and Phonological Contrast in Neural Representations

18h Nicolas Ballier and Artem Saloev (UPCité) TIMIT American Dialectology Revisited Using Neural Audio Codec Representations

18h15 Discussion
18h30 END

For questions, please contact nicolas.ballier@u-paris.fr