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! ♥

Talk at DFKI MLT

Today, I presented our Interspeech 2022 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), in the Multilinguality and Language Technology group at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken. Thank you for having me!