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Undergraduate Researcher

Center for Language and Speech Processing · Johns Hopkins University

Dates
Sep 2025 – Present
Advisors
Prof. Philipp Koehn, Prof. Berrak Sisman
Center
clsp.jhu.edu
Johns Hopkins University

Overview

CLSP is Johns Hopkins' center for speech and human language technology. My work there studies how prosody (the pitch, loudness, and timing of speech) carries across languages in translation.

Speech ProcessingProsodySpeech-to-Speech TranslationStatistical Analysis

Timeline

  1. Sep 2025Joined CLSP

    Began research on cross-lingual prosody with Prof. Koehn and Prof. Sisman.

  2. 2025Analysis pipeline

    Speech-quality filtering, bilingual alignment, prosody extraction, and statistical validation over 300K mined utterance pairs.

  3. 2026First-author paper, Findings of EMNLP 2026

    "Is Prosody Lost in Translation? Fine-Grained Cross-Lingual Prosody Similarity Across Languages."

  4. UpcomingPresenting at EMNLP 2026, Budapest

    Hope to meet everyone there.

Featured project

GermanEnglish (dubbed)ρ = 0.79
Findings of EMNLP 2026 · First author

Is Prosody Lost in Translation?

A word-level study of how pitch and energy carry across languages in professionally dubbed speech.

3 language pairs49K utterance pairs110 h speech
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