Interspeech (October 25-29, 2020)

This year, Interspeech was held as a fully virtual conference under the motto Cognitive Intelligence for Speech Processing. A big thank you to the organizers in Shanghai/China, who made it possible for our community to meet and exchange ideas despite the global pandemic.

Our group presented joint work with Michelle Cohn, Kristin Predeck, and Georgia Zellou from the University of California, Davis, in the session on Computational Paralinguistics: Differences in Gradient Emotion Perception: Human vs. Alexa Voices.

Our second paper, Phonetic Accommodation of L2 German Speakers to the Virtual Language Learning Tutor Mirabella, was part of the session on Accoustic Phonetics of L1-L2 and received the ISCA Award for Best Student Paper at Interspeech 2020! Here’s to you, Mirabella! 🥂 🍾

This video gives a short overview of the paper:

Proceedings of Interspeech 2020