Next 30th march at 5pm CEST we will hold the workshop “Transcribing Oral Testimonies with Automatic Speech Recognition.”

The event is part of the activities of the Avalanche project, and you are very welcome to join if you are interested. The session will offer a practical introduction to the use of ASR for transcribing oral history testimonies, with a live demonstration in Google Colab using OpenAI’s Whisper model. It will also be a chance to discuss both the potential and the current limitations of these tools.

Speaker bio (brief):

Maria Dermentzi is a digital humanities researcher at UVSQ – Université Paris-Saclay and the director of Toolbox 21, a company providing custom software solutions and consulting on the use of AI in the humanities and social sciences. Previously, she worked at King’s College London, developing tools for historical research within the framework of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure.

At the beginning of the event, we will briefly record the number of participants, as this is required for our reporting to the European Commission.

Here is the Zoom link:

https://uvsq-fr.zoom.us/j/92341543313?pwd=pUs5uVFntmtWSabxnMjK92HcIaCKHN.1

Meeting ID: 923 4154 3313

Please email us to receive password

30th march 2026 UPDATE:  It’s just finished the workshop with Maria Dermenzi and Giovanni Pietro Vitali by Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. We had 33 people connected in the moment of maximum peak