Chaakming Lau

Note: I used Gemini to help structure this thought.

This is probably just a very expensive conference model. But when you see such high-profile names on the board, you expect more involvement and support from the organizer. The local team isn't to blame as they are a victim too. (6/6)

Is the International Linguistic Society (ExLing) predatory? I’ve been digging into the Phonetics 2025 conference recently held in Hong Kong and what I found is deeply concerning. This may be a high-dollar scam targeting linguistics researchers and departments. (1/6)

When Foreign Narratives Turn Local Tragedies into Geopolitical Weapons by Adam Clermont drive.google.com/file/d/14WErtE…

Fun story from the children's Cantonese writing initiative in video form. With Jyutping, English translation, colored parts-of-speech, and professional voice. Full set of PDF / audio for all 18 selected stories are available at canto.hk/youth-2025/

@Mau_MauMautch 7年前、文字だけ覚えるかと思って、気づいたらタイ語できるようになってた

タイ文字読めるようになりたい

(con’t) - Your participation will make a valuable contribution to research on the under-studied Fijian language. If you are a native Fijian speaker and interested, please scan the QR code to join the survey. Feel free to share this post with those who may be eligible.

This study is recruiting native Fijian speakers. 📝 Details: - Participation is voluntary and anonymous. - The survey will take around 5 mins. - You can take part from anywhere in the world, as long as you have a device with internet access.

We are at 35,918 and have secured funding to conduct validation experiments! Help us reach more Cantonese speakers before the next stage. #CantoneseCommunity

@graphemecluster （遲咗添）生日快樂！

生まれた

I'm presenting on TypeDuck Lexicon, the language resource behind the keyboard, at BYU this Saturday. Check out more details here: wicl7.byu.edu

Want to learn Cantonese? TypeDuck 1.2 introduces a new Jyutping layout with Voice Feedback. It's a bit small for iPhone SE (as shown in the video) but works well on iPads and newer models. (The QWERTY and Numpad layouts are still available.)

張悦楷語音數據集最尾一個子集《走進毛澤東的黃昏歲月》已經上傳完畢，加上之前嘅三國演義同水滸傳，總共有112個鐘嘅高質語音數據喇！ The last subset of Zoeng Jyut Gaai Speech Dataset, The final days of Mao Ze Dong, is now fully uploaded. We have 112 hours now! huggingface.co/datasets/CanCL…

We've got over 35,000 participants so far, very close to our initial goal.

張悦楷數據集迎來最大更新：新加咗 38.62 個鐘張悦楷講《水滸傳》，加上原有嘅三國演義數據，總時長達到 104.64 個鐘！HF 倉庫亦正式改名為 CanCLID/zoengjyutgaai huggingface.co/datasets/CanCL… 主頁亦已加入最新統計信息 canclid.github.io/zoengjyutgaai/ 請大家多多分享支持，令我哋繼續出品優質數據集！