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Don’t forget to enter the Koala Competition for your chance to win a free registration for #Interspeech2026! Competition entries close 26th Feb 2026, with the winner to be announced on 17th March interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
February 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Don’t forget to enter the Koala Competition for your chance to win a free registration for #Interspeech2026! Competition entries close 26th Feb 2026, with the winner to be announced on 17th March interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
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The #Interspeech2026 deadlines are approaching, with the call for papers closing on 25 Feb 2026. Log in to the submission portal early, and check out the welcome message and instructions in advance! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
February 10, 2026 at 6:00 AM
The #Interspeech2026 deadlines are approaching, with the call for papers closing on 25 Feb 2026. Log in to the submission portal early, and check out the welcome message and instructions in advance! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
Very cool way to learn more about spectrograms by having fun with squiggles and blobs. 🤓
Another fascinating video. As always!
Another fascinating video. As always!
New coding adventure -- experimenting with the short-time fourier transform
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Coding Adventure: Analyzing Audio
YouTube video by Sebastian Lague
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February 8, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Very cool way to learn more about spectrograms by having fun with squiggles and blobs. 🤓
Another fascinating video. As always!
Another fascinating video. As always!
#Throwback2016
LabPhon15 at Cornell University. Fond memories of collaborations past. Presented joint work with J. Roux, A. Coetzee, J. Bruni and my late Doktorvater G. Dogil on devoicing in Tswana. With A. Schweitzer and N. Lewandowski we showed that personality affects convergence. What a time!
LabPhon15 at Cornell University. Fond memories of collaborations past. Presented joint work with J. Roux, A. Coetzee, J. Bruni and my late Doktorvater G. Dogil on devoicing in Tswana. With A. Schweitzer and N. Lewandowski we showed that personality affects convergence. What a time!
February 6, 2026 at 11:20 AM
#Throwback2016
LabPhon15 at Cornell University. Fond memories of collaborations past. Presented joint work with J. Roux, A. Coetzee, J. Bruni and my late Doktorvater G. Dogil on devoicing in Tswana. With A. Schweitzer and N. Lewandowski we showed that personality affects convergence. What a time!
LabPhon15 at Cornell University. Fond memories of collaborations past. Presented joint work with J. Roux, A. Coetzee, J. Bruni and my late Doktorvater G. Dogil on devoicing in Tswana. With A. Schweitzer and N. Lewandowski we showed that personality affects convergence. What a time!
More upcoming:
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present a little study where we test some ASR systems with co-authors Laurens Winkler and Sina Zarrieß from the #CRC1646 #LINCC discussing “How well can LLMs handle novel phonetic forms?”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
@clausebielefeld.bsky.social
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present a little study where we test some ASR systems with co-authors Laurens Winkler and Sina Zarrieß from the #CRC1646 #LINCC discussing “How well can LLMs handle novel phonetic forms?”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
@clausebielefeld.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 8:16 PM
More upcoming:
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present a little study where we test some ASR systems with co-authors Laurens Winkler and Sina Zarrieß from the #CRC1646 #LINCC discussing “How well can LLMs handle novel phonetic forms?”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
@clausebielefeld.bsky.social
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present a little study where we test some ASR systems with co-authors Laurens Winkler and Sina Zarrieß from the #CRC1646 #LINCC discussing “How well can LLMs handle novel phonetic forms?”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
@clausebielefeld.bsky.social
Upcoming:
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present joint work by Robert Fromont, Jennifer Hay, Daniel Duran, Allie Osborne, Melanie Weirich, Miriam Oschkinat & Stefanie Jannedy: “Evaluating Full Automation of Computational Sociophonetics for the #Plapper Corpus”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present joint work by Robert Fromont, Jennifer Hay, Daniel Duran, Allie Osborne, Melanie Weirich, Miriam Oschkinat & Stefanie Jannedy: “Evaluating Full Automation of Computational Sociophonetics for the #Plapper Corpus”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
January 31, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Upcoming:
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present joint work by Robert Fromont, Jennifer Hay, Daniel Duran, Allie Osborne, Melanie Weirich, Miriam Oschkinat & Stefanie Jannedy: “Evaluating Full Automation of Computational Sociophonetics for the #Plapper Corpus”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
At this year’s #ESSV conference, I will present joint work by Robert Fromont, Jennifer Hay, Daniel Duran, Allie Osborne, Melanie Weirich, Miriam Oschkinat & Stefanie Jannedy: “Evaluating Full Automation of Computational Sociophonetics for the #Plapper Corpus”
― www.essv.de/essv2026
Fritz Seebauer from the #Bielefeld University #Phonetics group successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Synthetic Speech Evaluation - Quality and Context”.
Congratulations Dr. Seebauer! 🥳👨🎓
Congratulations Dr. Seebauer! 🥳👨🎓
January 28, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Fritz Seebauer from the #Bielefeld University #Phonetics group successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Synthetic Speech Evaluation - Quality and Context”.
Congratulations Dr. Seebauer! 🥳👨🎓
Congratulations Dr. Seebauer! 🥳👨🎓
#Throwback2016
Buenos Aires, Argentina: International Congress on Acoustics. Amongst hardcore acoustics with numerical simulations — no LLMs, not even deep learning — me with a humble 3D computer game promoting #gamification in #phonetics research. I dare say, I was a professional game designer. 😎
Buenos Aires, Argentina: International Congress on Acoustics. Amongst hardcore acoustics with numerical simulations — no LLMs, not even deep learning — me with a humble 3D computer game promoting #gamification in #phonetics research. I dare say, I was a professional game designer. 😎
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
#Throwback2016
Buenos Aires, Argentina: International Congress on Acoustics. Amongst hardcore acoustics with numerical simulations — no LLMs, not even deep learning — me with a humble 3D computer game promoting #gamification in #phonetics research. I dare say, I was a professional game designer. 😎
Buenos Aires, Argentina: International Congress on Acoustics. Amongst hardcore acoustics with numerical simulations — no LLMs, not even deep learning — me with a humble 3D computer game promoting #gamification in #phonetics research. I dare say, I was a professional game designer. 😎
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Ever wanted to find out whether Bielefeld really exist? 🕵♀️ this is your chance! Two days left to submit an abstract for #DGKL2026 👇
conferences.uni-bielefeld.de/frontend/ind...
🐦🐦 #BLinguistik #Langsky
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🐦🐦 #BLinguistik #Langsky
January 24, 2026 at 9:04 AM
Ever wanted to find out whether Bielefeld really exist? 🕵♀️ this is your chance! Two days left to submit an abstract for #DGKL2026 👇
conferences.uni-bielefeld.de/frontend/ind...
🐦🐦 #BLinguistik #Langsky
conferences.uni-bielefeld.de/frontend/ind...
🐦🐦 #BLinguistik #Langsky
Started 2025 with an Erdős number not higher than 5*. Now I am at 4.
...only two more years to go! 🚀
(*taking into account all scientific publications, not restricted to mathematics)
...only two more years to go! 🚀
(*taking into account all scientific publications, not restricted to mathematics)
January 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Started 2025 with an Erdős number not higher than 5*. Now I am at 4.
...only two more years to go! 🚀
(*taking into account all scientific publications, not restricted to mathematics)
...only two more years to go! 🚀
(*taking into account all scientific publications, not restricted to mathematics)
Hannover kann kein Schnee. Totales Chaos hier 😂 In Esslingen war der Schneepflug jeden Tag in meiner Straße (eine verkehrstechnisch unwichtige Sackgasse), obwohl schon fast kein Schnee mehr lag. Hier in Langenhagen liegen etwa 20cm Schnee auf der Straße. Nix geräumt 😱
January 11, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Hannover kann kein Schnee. Totales Chaos hier 😂 In Esslingen war der Schneepflug jeden Tag in meiner Straße (eine verkehrstechnisch unwichtige Sackgasse), obwohl schon fast kein Schnee mehr lag. Hier in Langenhagen liegen etwa 20cm Schnee auf der Straße. Nix geräumt 😱
Sretna nova 2026. godina svima!
Happy new year everyone!
Happy new year everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Sretna nova 2026. godina svima!
Happy new year everyone!
Happy new year everyone!
Reposted by Daniel Duran
Analysing cheering events for marathon runners... How would cheer them? Our colleagues studied prosodic patterns of cheering.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The prosody of cheering in sports events: the case of long-distance running
Since cheering has not yet been systematically investigated from a phonetic perspective, this study explores its acoustic characteristics by focusing on a specific type of cheering: inciting calls dir...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Analysing cheering events for marathon runners... How would cheer them? Our colleagues studied prosodic patterns of cheering.
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
😂
"Einen Umstieg von Gleis 4 auf Gleis 12 in zwei Minuten in Hannover schaffen Sie sowieso nicht!" I beg to differ.
December 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
😂
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Ever thought there can be word internal pauses??? Yes, it is possible. Work by Ludger Paschen
New study just out in Linguistic Typology on word-internal pauses in 44 languages! We found that pausing within word units is surprisingly common cross-linguistically, especially around prefixes. Check out the paper for all the details! (Open Access!) www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The ubiquity of word-internal pauses
This paper presents a cross-linguistic survey of 738 word-internal pauses in 44 languages from DoReCo, a multilingual corpus of spontaneous speech. Word-internal pauses are attested in a variety of co...
www.degruyterbrill.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Ever thought there can be word internal pauses??? Yes, it is possible. Work by Ludger Paschen
Damn, yet another factor to be controlled for in lab experiments 😀
Great work!
Great work!
New paper in @openmindjournal.bsky.social "Scope and limits of iconic prosody." It all started in 2018. First results at CogSci 2019, then for my PhD. This is a complete re-analysis! doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...
Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social Manfred Krifka, and Cornelia Ebert 💛 + editors + reviewers
Thanks to @susfuchs.bsky.social Manfred Krifka, and Cornelia Ebert 💛 + editors + reviewers
The Scope and Limits of Iconic Prosody: Head Angle Predicts f0 Changes While Object Size Effects Are Absent
Abstract. The relation between the fundamental frequency of the voice (f0) and vertical space has been shown in previous studies; however, the underlying mechanisms are less clear. This study investig...
doi.org
December 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Damn, yet another factor to be controlled for in lab experiments 😀
Great work!
Great work!
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Can changes in word frequencies signal turn completion/continuation? I’m trying to answer this question here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Frontiers | Do frequency and frequency-related measures signal turn completion? An exploratory corpus study
Speakers in conversation have access to word frequency information stored in the mental lexicon. This article examines whether word frequencies play a role a...
www.frontiersin.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Can changes in word frequencies signal turn completion/continuation? I’m trying to answer this question here: www.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
How to elicit natural speech in different communicative settings in a controlled laboratory setting? Cool work in progress using virtual reality was presented by Miriam Oschkinat from #SFB1412 today at the linguistics CRC networking meeting in Bielefeld hosted by #CRC1646
@labphon-zas.bsky.social
@labphon-zas.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
How to elicit natural speech in different communicative settings in a controlled laboratory setting? Cool work in progress using virtual reality was presented by Miriam Oschkinat from #SFB1412 today at the linguistics CRC networking meeting in Bielefeld hosted by #CRC1646
@labphon-zas.bsky.social
@labphon-zas.bsky.social
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Postdoc position in Stuttgart, Germany (TV-L 13, 100%) for 18 months, on authority presuppositions in AI systems with Dr. Agnieszka Faleńska and me. For more information and application info, see here: safety.https://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/documents/team/falensaa/aphic_postoc.pdf
www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de
November 24, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Tomorrow, we will show within the science festival #geniale how AI voice modification can help explaining the subtle differences between voice qualities, expressing personality, age, mood, gender, health, and much more! #trr318, #bielefeld #tts #xAI wissenswerkstadt.de/veranstaltun...
Sag was! | Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld
Mit Hilfe von KI Stimmeigenschaften erklärbarer machen
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November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Tomorrow, we will show within the science festival #geniale how AI voice modification can help explaining the subtle differences between voice qualities, expressing personality, age, mood, gender, health, and much more! #trr318, #bielefeld #tts #xAI wissenswerkstadt.de/veranstaltun...
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📢 Call for papers! Join us in Sydney for #Interspeech2026, 27 September – 1 October 2026. Paper submission portal opens 17 Jan and closes 25 Feb. See you there! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
November 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
📢 Call for papers! Join us in Sydney for #Interspeech2026, 27 September – 1 October 2026. Paper submission portal opens 17 Jan and closes 25 Feb. See you there! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...
Am I evil? Am I likeable?
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Am I evil? Am I likeable?
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
Reposted by Daniel Duran
#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...
Do you even need visual social cues to trigger speech register effects? Imagining to address a friend vs a policeman is enough to change speaking style (f0 in this case).
Check out our new paper in which we present an analysis of speech data collected with the #Plapper app:
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Check out our new paper in which we present an analysis of speech data collected with the #Plapper app:
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Do you even need visual social cues to trigger speech register effects? Imagining to address a friend vs a policeman is enough to change speaking style (f0 in this case).
Check out our new paper in which we present an analysis of speech data collected with the #Plapper app:
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Check out our new paper in which we present an analysis of speech data collected with the #Plapper app:
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...