Chenzi Xu

The second CorpusPhon Workshop is up, a satellite event at Labphon 2026.
Please check this out and submit your abstract!

#corpusphonetics #phonetics #labphon2026 #corpusphon

Glad to co-organise CorpusPhon this year. Stay tuned for an abstract call soon!

Alumni talk this afternoon at PolyU. Drop by if you’re around and interested!

#linguistics #polyu #academia

Plastic Mandarin tones: regional identity in prosody Local differentiation and innovation in spoken Mandarin are now ubiquitous in metropolises in China, accelerated by the widespread promotion of the national lingua franca Standard Mandarin. This paper...

If you are curious about Plastic Mandarin, feel free to check out my new paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

#phonetics #linguistics #citationtone

We presented our #ManyTones project at the 2025 #BigTeamScience Conference. We talked about project background, pilot study, and challenges. The slides are available at chenchenzi.github.io/manytones/pr.... Feel free to check them out 👀

Join me at the #BigTeamScience Conference, where I'll be presenting live via Zoom today (Oct 6) from 14:30-14:55 UTC(15:30 UK). Register now (for free or pay-what-you-want) at bigteamscience.github.io to catch my Talk on our “ManyTones” project!

#ManyTones #linguistics #phonetics

registration >>> Register for the 2025 BTSCON now! *** ### BTSCON Registration Info To balance inclusivity with our funding needs, *registration fees for the Big Team Science Conference are optional*. You can pay ...

There's still time to register for the 2025 Big Team Science Conference (October 6-8, live on Zoom)! All fees are OPTIONAL, so you can pay what you'd like (or nothing at all!) to gain access to a ton of amazing BTS content.

bigteamscienceconference.github.io/registration/

The ManyTones project is looking for several lead positions. See poster for details. 📢📣✨ Get involved! 🎉🤝🌟

Thank you the team at Leiden University for the opportunity to present on working with large-scale speech corpus.

🖥️Slides are available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/talk/corpus/.

#Corpusphonetics #speechcorpus #linguistics

ASR from Scratch III: Training models of Bora, a Low-resource Language (MFA) | Dr Chenzi Xu This chapter we focus on Bora, an endangered indigenous language of South America, primarily spoken in the western Amazon rainforest. I will demonstrate how to train a mini Bora acoustic model for for...

Hands-on MFA series on low-resource language Bora, based on fieldwork word lists from a single speaker (~1.5 hours!).

#phonetics #MFA #forcedalignment #tutorial

⭐️ available at: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/3a...

HKU Careers The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.

Experimental Phonetics Postdoc opportunity at HKU with Ricky Chan (HKU), Paul Foulkes (York UK) , Cuiling Zhang (Southwest University of Political Science & Law, China) and Bruce Wang(PolyU, HK). Please feel free to email Ricky (rickykwc@hku.hk) for an informal chat.

jobs.hku.hk/en/job/53256...

Could you please add me too? Many thanks!

Congrats! See you in Oxford:)

✨Our team is expanding. Join us at #ManyTones!

ManyLanguages starts its first BigTeamScience project: ManyTones. Get in touch with the lead team if you want to be involved.

Super excited that our project is accepted and is officially launching 🎊

Stay tuned for more details!

Would love to be included in this community!

GitHub - chenchenzi/HKCantonese_models: This is a repository dedicated for pre-trained acoustic models of Hong Kong Cantonese and Cantonese forced alignment. This is a repository dedicated for pre-trained acoustic models of Hong Kong Cantonese and Cantonese forced alignment. - chenchenzi/HKCantonese_models

New Cantonese acoustic models are available!

💛trained using the Common Voice 19 Cantonese subset and Chinese (Hong Kong) subset, with 3400 speakers.

💛different phone set/dictionary options
#MFA #phonetics #Cantonese

github.com/chenchenzi/H...

🚨New preprint🚨

"Big Team Science for language science: Opportunities and Challenges"

osf.io/3pkj6/

Led by
@faytak.bsky.social
@sarkadava.bsky.social
@chenzi.bsky.social
@onurunki.bsky.social
@aggieerin.bsky.social

#langsky #linguistics

A cross-linguistic review of citation tone production studies: Methodology and recommendations The study of citation tones, lexical tones produced in isolation, is one of the first steps towards understanding speech prosody in tone languages. However, met

New paper out🔥🔥🔥

We conducted a cross-linguistic review of citation tone studies and proposed a range of recommendations on ‘distilling’ citation tones.

⭐️: pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/art...

#phonetics #linguistics #tone #prosody

🔥 The first paper on Plastic Mandarin in the Journal of Phonetics is out! Check it out🌟 It’s fully open access. #phonetics #linguistics

🔗 authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

Officially started my @leverhulme.bsky.social Early Career Fellowship at the University of Oxford. I am working on a variety of tone languages. Contact me if you have any collaboration ideas💡

🌟Check out my project:
www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career...

Tier list of reference management

Do you have a nerdy tier list? In my blog I talked about reference management and provided a thorough guide to @zotero and Zotero plugins.

🌟Read here: chenzixu.rbind.io/resources/4r...