IJHCS article published! 🎉

We are happy to announce that our article Audience Design and Egocentrism in Reference Production during Human-Computer Dialogue was published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies and is available online. 📖

The article compares the level of allocentric and egocentric speech production in human-human dialogue (HHD) and human-computer dialogue (HCD). We find that the role the computer partner occupies in the dialogue (i.e., whether it is seen more as a tool or as a dialogue partner) can affect how allocentric and egocentric users behave during the interaction. A more tool-like perception of the computer partner leads to increased egocentric behaviour on the part of the user, while perceiving the computer partner as dialogue partner leads to similar levels of allocentric and egocentric behaviour in HCD as in HHD.

ADAPT Innovating Women Campaign

Happy to have been featured in ADAPT’s Innovating Women Campaign – see here. #EmbraceEquity ✊

In this context: 🚨 We are calling female-identifying Bachelor’s and Master’s students working in speech science and technology to participate in this year’s Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop. Submit a 300 word abstract about a project you are involved in until May 6th, 2023 – and come to Dublin this August! We are looking forward to having you here! 👀

Visit at Hyro

Today I had the pleasure of visiting Hyro Tel Aviv. With members of the product and engineering teams we discussed speech-related phenomena and their relevance for conversational AI. Thank you for having me (Eran Raveh, Rotem Fisch et al)! 😊 👋

Interspeech 2022 (September 18-22, 2022)

These were a great couple of days at Songdo Convesia in Incheon/Korea! 🇰🇷 🫰 Meeting new and old friends/colleagues at Interspeech is always a blast. Check out this video for some conference impressions.

I presented our paper Cross-Cultural Comparison of Gradient Emotion Perception: Human vs. Alexa TTS Voices authored with Michelle Cohn (UC Davis, USA), Georgia Zellou (UC Davis, USA), and Bernd Möbius (Saarland University, Germany) [lower right], chaired a session on the Automatic Analysis of Paralinguistics with Slim Essid (Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France) [upper left], and was involved in various events organized by a fantastic new generation of ISCA-SAC [lower left]. We also had the pleasure of an impromptu meeting with some of our ISCA-SAC predecessors [upper right]. Thank you guys for starting this group! 🙌

Looking forward to Interspeech 2023 in Dublin. Come visit us in Ireland! 🇮🇪 ☘️

YFRSW 2022

We had a great Young Female Researchers in Speech Science and Technology workshop (YFRSW) today at Inha University in Incheon/Korea. Thank you very much to my co-chairs Meg Zellers (University of Kiel, Germany) and Esther Klabbers (ReadSpeaker, USA), and the YFRSW 2022 organizing committee – especially Bowon Lee (Inha University, Korea)!

Our workshop participants presented their work, joined mentoring and panel sessions to discuss their questions, and subsequently attended Interspeech 2022. What a great opportunity, made possible by our sponsors, and all mentors and panelists participating in the event. Thanks, everyone! ♥