Today the UdS Phonetics group visited Prof. Peter Gilles and colleagues at the Institut de langue et de littératures luxembourgeoises on the futuristic Belval Campus of the University of Luxembourg.
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The 41st Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) took place at the University of Bremen from March 6th to 8th. We had the pleasure to contribute to AG6: Phonetic Contrast and Phonemic Opposition successfully organized by Felicitas Kleber (University of Munich), Stefanie Jannedy (ZAS Berlin), and Melanie Weirich (University of Jena). The invited talk by Andrew Wedel (University of Arizona) discussed how the optimization for lexical information transmission shapes systems of phonological contrast.
The Workshop on Accommodation in Speech Communication organized by Elisa Pellegrino and Volker Dellwo for the University Research Priority Program Language and Space at the University of Zurich was a unique opportunity to discuss and exchange ideas among the accommodation community. We heard inspiring invited talks by Rivka Levitan (Brooklyn College CUNY), Jennifer Pardo (Montclair State University), and Antje Schweitzer (Stuttgart University). Our talk was part of the session on accommodation in human-machine interactions together with contributions by Rivka Levitan, Štefan Beňuš as well as Petra Jaecks and Karoline Malchus.
We are looking back on fruitful discussions about our upcoming Wizard-of-Oz experiment at a beautifully organized P&P conference (Phonetik und Phonologie im deutschsprachigen Raum) held on September 6 and 7, 2018 at the University of Vienna, Austria. The conference included a field trip to the Acoustics Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences demonstrating the diverse work going on in Vienna.
Today the Students Meet Experts event organized by ISCA’s Student Advisory Committee (ISCA-SAC) took place at Interspeech 2018 in Hyderabad. Questions by an audience of young researchers, mainly doctoral students, were competently answered by this year’s panel of experts from academia and industry: