@inproceedings{chan-hammerly-2025-evaluating,
    title = "Evaluating Indigenous language speech synthesis for education: A participatory design workshop on {O}jibwe text-to-speech",
    author = "Chan, Viann Sum Yat  and
      Hammerly, Christopher",
    editor = "Lachler, Jordan  and
      Agyapong, Godfred  and
      Arppe, Antti  and
      Moeller, Sarah  and
      Chaudhary, Aditi  and
      Rijhwani, Shruti  and
      Rosenblum, Daisy",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages",
    month = mar,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Honolulu, Hawaii, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/Ingest-2025-COMPUTEL/2025.computel-main.6/",
    pages = "47--64",
    ISBN = "None",
    abstract = "This paper reports methods and results from a participatory design workshop aimed at evaluating the use of speech synthesis and text-to-speech for Ojibwe language education. Using an existing text-to-speech feature as a starting point, we worked with two groups of Ojibwe language instructors using a guided trial of the speech synthesis system and a two hour semistructured workshop with the aim of creating a lesson plan that utilizes text-to-speech. We highlight the insights from this work, both in how to design and deliver speech synthesis systems for Indigenous language education, but also how to approach and design such a workshop to ensure a fruitful discourse."
}