20 Feb 2020
This two-day workshop on the Measurement of Speech Respiration and Speech Preparation Phases was organized
by the project group Pause-internal Phonetic Particles at Saarland University in Saarbrücken.
The workshop featured invited talks by Susanne Fuchs (ZAS Berlin):
The involvement of respiration in local and global aspects of speech,
Marcin Włodarczak (Stockholm University): Interactional functions of breathing, and Adrian Simpson (University of Jena):
Where does the air pressure come from? The production of ejectives in German and Georgian,
practical sessions by Jörg Dreyer (ZAS Berlin), Marcin Włodarczak (Stockholm University), and
Raphael Werner (Saarland University), as well as further exciting presentations from labs across Europe.
The practical insights and lively discussions made this workshop an invaluable learning experience.
Many thanks to Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius and Raphael Werner for organizing this event!
28 Sep 2019
The 15th edition of Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum took place at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf.
The conference continues to grow, which is why we had the first P&P with two parallel tracks this year.
Invited talks were given by Caroline Féry (Goethe University Frankfurt): The role of phonology in evolution of language and Vsevolod Kapatsinski (University of Oregon): Mechanisms of phonological learning.
Many thanks to the Düsseldorf team for the wonderfully organized conference!
20 Sep 2019
This year’s Interspeech was jointly organized by the speech communities of Graz/Austria and Maribor/Slovenia under the motto Crossroads of Speech and Language
.
We presented our work in the sessions on Sociophonetics and Adaptation and Accommodation in Conversation.
Thanks to the organizers for a great week at Messecongress Graz!
Proceedings of Interspeech 2019
For videos of keynote and survey talks, please visit the YouTube channel of Interspeech 2019.
I would like to highlight the following presentation of the piece Voices and Piano – Hanna Schygulla by Peter Ablinger which which was interpreted during the opening session by Alexandra Radoulova (piano) and Winfried Ritsch (live electronics):
15 Sep 2019
The 5th ISCA-SAC Doctoral Consortium was held at Graz Technical University on September 14, 2019.
A group of 14 highly motivated PhD students from research institutes in India, Germany, Sweden, Singapore, France, South Korea and the USA presented their work in two parallel tracks to a panel of researchers from academia and industry:
- Kate Knill (University of Cambridge)
- Anouschka Foltz (University of Graz)
- João Freitas (DefinedCrowd)
- Ngoc Thang Vu (University of Stuttgart)
- Hema Murthy (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
- Simon King (University of Edinburgh)
- Sebastian Möller (TU Berlin and DFKI Berlin)
- Dayana Ribas (University of Zaragoza)
- Kyu Han (ASAPP Inc.)
The panel provided their expertise with respect to consolidating the findings presented to them into one final product: the PhD thesis.
We thank the experts on the panel very much for taking the time and sharing their insight!
We further would like to express our gratitude to Jamilla Balint and Katharina Pollack from Graz Technical University for their tremendous help in the local organization of the event!
14 Sep 2019
Today, I had the pleasure to be part of the PhD panel of this year’s
Workshop for Young Female Researchers in Speech Science & Technology (YFRSW) which was held at Graz Technical University.
YFRSW aims to foster interest in research in female undergraduate and masters students, who have not yet committed to getting a PhD.
The panel answered questions by the audience on how to get a PhD position (in different countries), how to get through a PhD
while keeping a sane mind, and why to pursue a PhD in the first place.
Thank you for the invitation and for organizing this great workshop,
Catharine Oertel (Delft University of Technology),
Esther Klabbers (ReadSpeaker), Odette Scharenborg (Delft University of Technology), and team!