LDC August 2025 Newsletter: New Releases & Events

LDC’s August 2025 newsletter features new data releases, events at Interspeech 2025, and the Fall 2025 data scholarship program.

Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) has released its August 2025 newsletter, highlighting key updates, new publications, and upcoming events.

LDC will be exhibiting at Interspeech 2025 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, from August 17-21. Visit their booth to learn about the latest developments and attend presentations featuring LDC work, including ‘Comparative Evaluation of Acoustic Feature Extraction Tools for Clinical Speech Analysis’ and ‘Reasoning-Based Approach with Chain-of-Thought for Alzheimer’s Detection Using Speech and Large Language Models’.

• New publications include:
  • Mixer 6 – CHiME 8 Transcribed Calls and Interviews
  • Abstract Meaning Representation 2.0 – Machine Translations
  • KAIROS Phase 1 Quizlet

The Fall 2025 LDC data scholarship program is now open for applications until September 15, 2025. Eligible students can gain no-cost access to LDC data by submitting a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor. For more information, visit the LDC Data Scholarships page.

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