The Department of Computer Science, the Digital Humanities Institute and the School of Allied Health Professions, Nursing and Midwifery at Sheffield, together with the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University are pleased to announce a cross disciplinary workshop on Speech and Language Technology for Spoken History (SPLASH) to be held March 26, 2024.

The aim of this workshop is to begin to rectify this situation. By bringing AI researchers from speech and language technology together with researchers who use and build oral history archives for research or therapeutic purposes, we hope to kickstart a collaborative effort that will grow into an externally funded project. Such a project  will combine recent advances in speech and language technologies with a more sensitive understanding of user needs to bring about a step change in the accessibility and utility of oral history collections. 

Registration: All those members of the University with a serious interest in the application  of speech and language technologies in Oral History are welcome to attend, though in person numbers are limited to 15. In the first instance we are inviting those we know to have an interest in the topic at Sheffield and Newcastle and all members of the Sheffield.AI interest group on “Data-driven Research in the  Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Arts and Humanities”. Feel free to pass the invitation on to others to whom it may be directly relevant. The workshop will be a full day event including lunch and tea and coffee breaks. You can view the programme for the event here. Please register your intention to attend via registration form by Tuesday March 19 at the latest.