Pho­ne­tics

At ICPhS 2023 in Pra­gue, Czech Re­pu­blic

Left to right: Jana Wiech­mann, An­nett Jor­schick (Psy­cho­lingu­is­tics Bie­le­feld), Far­hat Ja­be­en, Anna Brug­ge­man(For­mer Mem­ber), Petra Wag­ner, Alek­san­dra Ćwiek (For­mer Mem­ber), Fritz See­bau­er, Lo­re­da­na Schet­ti­no (For­mer Mem­ber), Simon Betz, Bog­dan Lu­du­san (For­mer Mem­ber)

Not pic­tu­red: Olcay Türk, Leo­nie Scha­de, Ákos Buza, Da­ni­el Duran, Mo­ritz Wa­cker­barth, Alex­an­dra Schmidt, Nico Dall­mann, Han­nah Pfen­nings­berg, Marin Schrö­er

What We Do:

• Speech syn­the­sis, i.e. the ar­ti­fi­cial pro­duc­tion of speech such as that used in ro­bots, rea­ding de­vices for blind peop­le, com­pu­ter games or an­noun­ce­ment sys­tems.
• Pro­so­dy, and in par­ti­cu­lar aspects of ti­ming and em­pha­sis. How pro­mi­nent­ly are sounds pro­du­ced at spe­ci­fic points of an ut­ter­an­ce, and when? How is this per­cei­ved and mo­de­led?
• Con­ver­sa­tio­nal pro­so­dy and ge­stu­re. In this re­se­arch area, we are in­te­rested in va­rious aspects of mul­ti­modal com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on, such as the syn­chro­niza­ti­on of sounds with fa­cial ex­pres­si­ons and ge­stu­res, the pho­ne­tic rea­li­sa­ti­on of dis­flu­ent speech and its in­te­gra­ti­on in sys­tems of human-​machine in­ter­ac­tion.

News

• Nico Dall­mann, Leo­nie Scha­de and Petra Wga­ner pre­sen­ted our work at In­ter­speech 2024 in Kos, Greece. Petra re­cei­ved her award as ISCA fel­low.
• We wel­co­me our new Group mem­bers Ákos Buza (A03), Leo­nie Scha­de (A02), Da­ni­el Duran (A02) all em­ploy­ed in the CRC1646
• Petra Wag­ner de­li­ve­r­ed a Key­note at MMSYM 2024
• We have two pa­pers ac­cep­ted at this year’s con­fe­rence on Speech Pro­so­dy 2024 in Lei­den
• We are ex­ci­ted to or­ga­ni­ze a Dag­stuhl Se­mi­nar in Ja­nuary 2025 on „Task and Si­tua­ti­on Aware Eva­lua­ti­on of Speech and Speech Syn­the­sis“
• Petra Wag­ner was elec­ted ISCA Fel­low in 2024, one of the most pres­ti­gious in­di­vi­du­al awards by ISCA!
• The newly fun­ded CRC1646 on Crea­ti­vi­ty in Com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on has of­fi­cial­ly star­ted in April 2024. Our Work­group is part of two pro­jects, one on „Crea­ting novel pho­ne­tic re­p­re­sen­ta­ti­ons across va­ry­ing com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on set­tings“ (A02), and ano­ther one on „The crea­ti­ve lis­te­ner: In­ter­pre­ta­ti­on at the in­ter­face of pro­so­dy, syn­tax and in­for­ma­ti­on struc­tu­re“ (A03)