Phonetics

Phonetics and Friends Christmas Party 2025

Left to right: Ákos Buza, Olcay Türk, Nico Dallmann, Alexandra Schmidt, Moritz Wackerbarth (former member), Petra Wagner, Leonie Schade, Jana Wiechmann, Fritz Seebauer, Susanne Hofmann, Daniel Duran

Not pictured: Farhat Jabeen, Simon Betz 

What We Do:

• Speech synthesis, i.e. the artificial production of speech such as that used in robots, reading devices for blind people, computer games or announcement systems.
• Prosody, and in particular aspects of timing and emphasis. How prominently are sounds produced at specific points of an utterance, and when? How is this perceived and modeled?
• Conversational prosody and gesture. In this research area, we are interested in various aspects of multimodal communication, such as the synchronization of sounds with facial expressions and gestures, the phonetic realisation of disfluent speech and its integration in systems of human-machine interaction.

News

• Together with other colleagues from the CRC1646 A03 project, Farhat Jabeen, Ákos Buza and Petra Wagner hosted an international workshop on "Mismatches in Information Structure, Prosody, and Syntax" at CITEC.

• Petra gave keynote at the conference on
  „Applied linguistics in the face of the challenges of a changing world“ at AMU Poznan, Poland.

• Petra Wagner and Simon Betz gave a keynote at the Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS) Workshop in Lisbon, Portugal in September 2025.

• Simon Betz, Nataliya Bryhadyr, Olcay Türk and Petra Wagner won the award for best 2023 paper in Languages.
• Petra Wagner gave a Keynote at TAI (Tone and Intonation 2025) in Herrsching (Munich), Germany
• Nico Dallmann, Leonie Schade and Petra Wagner presented our work at Interspeech 2024 in Kos, Greece. Petra received her award as ISCA fellow.
• We welcome our new Group members Ákos Buza (A03), Leonie Schade (A02), Daniel Duran (A02) all employed in the CRC1646
• Petra Wagner delivered a Keynote at MMSYM 2024​