Women in Speech

Selma Yilmazyildiz Kayaarma

Postdoctoral Researcher

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Electronics & Informatics, Audio-Visual Signal Processing Lab

Human speech processing; Sociophonetics; Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction

Helena Moniz

Research Scientist

INESC-ID

Prosody; Sociophonetics; Translation

Nadine Lavan

Research Scientist

Department of Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University College London

Human speech processing; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Theodora Chaspari

Assistant Professor

Texas A&M University

Multimodal processing; Human-robot interaction

Vivian Yun-Nung Chen

Assistant Professor

National Taiwan University

Dialogue and discourse; Multilingualism; Machine learning

Diane Litman

Full Professor

University Pittsburgh

Dialogue and discourse

Dimitra Vergyri

Team Leader

Speech Technology and Research Lab

Information extraction; Paralinguistics; Multilingualism; Translation

Barbara Grosz

Full Professor

Harvard University

Natural language processing

Joan A. Sereno

Full Professor

University of Kansas

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Language acquisition

Tara Sainath

Senior Researcher

Google, Inc.

Machine learning; Automatic speech recognition

Laurence Devillers

Full Professor

Sorbonne University CNRS (LIMSI Lab)

Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse; Ethics

Sayaka Shiota

Assistant Professor

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Zhengyu Zhou

Senior Researcher

Bosch Research and Technology Center, North America

Automatic speech recognition; Paralinguistics; Speech-based assistive technology; Natural language processing; Natural language generation; Dialogue and discourse

Julie Wall

Associate Professor

University of East London

Human speech processing; Automatic speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Machine learning

Meghan Clayards

Associate Professor

McGill University

Human speech processing; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Hema Murthy

Full Professor

IIT Madras

Prosody; Multimodal processing; Robust speech recognition; Machine learning; Speech synthesis

Katharina von Kriegstein

Full Professor

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Bronwen Evans

Associate Professor

UCL

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics

Verena Rieser

Full Professor

Heriot Watt University

Human-robot interaction; Natural language generation; Dialogue and discourse; Corpus development; Ethics

Rita Singh

Associate Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer-assisted language learning; Machine learning; Language acquisition

Irene Lorenzini

Postdoctoral Researcher

Rivka Levitan

Assistant Professor

Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center

Prosody; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Jelena Krivokapic

Associate Professor

University of Michigan

Prosody; Speech production; Phonology; Dialogue and discourse

Yaru Wu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology - CNRS & MoDyCo - CNRS

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production; Language acquisition

Yulan Liu

Research Scientist

Amazon

Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Machine learning

Kwanchiva Thangthai

Research Scientist

National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Thailand

Multimodal processing; Robust speech recognition; Machine learning; Computer-assisted language learning; Dialogue and discourse

Najwa Alghamdi

Assistant Professor

King Saud University

Multimodal processing; Dialogue and discourse

Karen Kaushansky

Research Scientist

Independent Consultant

Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Lucia Donatelli

Postdoctoral Researcher

Saarland University

Dialogue and discourse; Information extraction

Sarah Ita Levitan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Columbia University

Human speech processing; Prosody; Paralinguistics; Dialogue and discourse

Marilyn Walker

Full Professor

University Santa Cruz

Paralinguistics; Natural language processing; Natural language generation; Dialogue and discourse; Summarization

Britta Wrede

Full Professor

University of Bielefeld

Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Pallavi Baljekar

Software Engineer

Google Brain

Speech synthesis; Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Ethics

Melissa Baese-Berk

Associate Professor

University of Oregon

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Penny Karanasou

Research Scientist

Amazon Alexa AI, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Yang Liu

Team Leader

Laix Inc.

Automatic speech recognition; Dialogue and discourse; Natural language processing

Kay Berkling

Professor

Karlsruhe University

Speech synthesis; Natural language processing; Morphology and pronunciation

Julia Strand

Assistant Professor

Carleton College

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing

Mara Breen

Associate Professor

Mount Holyoke College

Prosody; Human speech processing

Amy J. Schafer

Full Professor

University of Hawaii

Human speech processing; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Grazyna Demenko

Full Professor

Adam Mickiewicz University

Human speech processing; Prosody; Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis; Computer-assisted language learning; Information extraction

Kristin Van Engen

Assistant Professor

Washington University in Saint Louis

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Multilingualism; Multimodal processing

Alice Turk

Full Professor

University of Edinburgh

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Research Scientist

EPFL

Speech synthesis; Dialogue and discourse

Jane Wottawa

Assistant Professor

Efthymia Kapnoula

Postdoctoral Researcher

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Human speech processing; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Sakriani Sakti

Associate Professor

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST

Multilingualism; Translation; Paralinguistics; Automatic speech recognition; Speech synthesis

Tomoko Matsui

Full Professor

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Speaker recognition

Zeynab Raeesy

Research Scientist

Amazon Alexa

Phonetics; Automatic speech recognition; Paralinguistics

Helen Hastie

Full Professor

Heriot Watt University

Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Emily Mower Provost

Associate Professor

University of Michigan

Multimodal processing; Speech-based assistive technology

Erica Cooper

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Informatics

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis

virginia westwood

Postdoctoral Researcher

Independent

Speech production; Language acquisition; Automatic speech recognition; Computer-assisted language learning; Ethics

Jeesun Kim

Full Professor

The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

Prosody; Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics

Petra Wagner

Full Professor

University of Bielefeld

Prosody; Speech synthesis; Dialogue and discourse

Michelle Huang

Research Scientist

Rev.com

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Preeti Rao

Full Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Multimodal processing; Speech enhancement; Computer-assisted language learning

Tatiana D. Korelsky

Other

National Science Foundation

Natural language generation; Translation

Xianxian Zhang

Research Scientist

Amazon Corp.

Multimodal processing; Speech enhancement; Machine learning; Speaker recognition

Jody Kreiman

Full Professor

UCLA Depts. of Head and Neck Surgery and Linguistics

Phonetics; Prosody; Speech production; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis

Khiet Truong

Assistant Professor

Human Media Interaction, University of Twente

Paralinguistics

Nan Xu Rattanasone

Postdoctoral Researcher

Child Language Lab, Macquarie University

Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Annie Tremblay

Associate Professor

University of Kansas

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multilingualism

Shammur Absar Chowdhury

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Trento

Human speech processing; Speech-based assistive technology; Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Tanja Schultz

Full Professor

University of Bremen

Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Multimodal processing

Outi Tuomainen

Senior Researcher

University College London

Language acquisition; Speech-based assistive technology

Mounya Elhilali

Full Professor

Johns Hopkins University

Human speech processing; Speech enhancement; Speech-based assistive technology

Gwen Brekelmans

Research Scientist

University College London

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Susannah Levi

Associate Professor

New York University

Phonetics; Phonology; Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Speaker recognition

Amalia Arvaniti

Full Professor

University of Kent

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Sociophonetics; Speech production

Yue Zhang Weninger

Postdoctoral Researcher

Affective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Natural language processing; Ethics

Janet Pierrehumbert

Full Professor

University of Oxford

Multilingualism; Machine learning; Morphology and pronunciation

Marianne Pouplier

Senior Researcher

Insitute of Phonetics, LMU Munich

Phonetics; Speech production; Phonology

Rosalind Wright Picard

Full Professor

MIT Media Lab

Prosody; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Speech-based assistive technology; Dialogue and discourse; Ethics

Natasha Warner

Full Professor

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology

Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Senior Researcher

Amazon Alexa AI

Dialogue and discourse

Paola Garcia

Research Scientist

Johns Hopkins University

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Nancy Chen

Team Leader

I2R, Singapore

Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Computer-assisted language learning; Natural language processing; Natural language generation; Morphology and pronunciation; Dialogue and discourse; Summarization; Corpus development

Dayana Ribas

Research Scientist

University of Zaragoza

Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition; Speech-based assistive technology; Corpus development

Katie Drager

Associate Professor

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Sociophonetics; Human speech processing; Phonetics

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

Full Professor

Technology (NAIST),

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multimodal processing

Caroline Henton

Senior Management

Santa Cruz CA

Speech synthesis; Phonetics

Cathi Best

Full Professor

Western Sydney University

Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Amanda Stent

Research Scientist

Bloomberg

Dialogue and discourse

Mari Ostendorf

Full Professor

University of Washington

Prosody; Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Speech synthesis; Natural language processing; Dialogue and discourse

Julia Hockenmaier

Associate Professor

University of Illinois

Natural language processing

Barbara Schuppler

Senior Researcher

Graz University of Technology, Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory

Phonetics; Prosody; Automatic speech recognition; Natural language processing; Corpus development

Gesa Hartwigsen

Associate Professor

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Human speech processing; Phonology; Speech production; Multimodal processing

Rosa González Hautamäki

Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Human speech processing; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Ganna Raboshchuk

Research Scientist

ELSA Corp.

Computer-assisted language learning

Anocha Rugchatjaroen

Research Scientist

NECTEC, National Science and Technology Development Agency

Speech synthesis

Patricia Keating

Full Professor

UCLA Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production

Catherine Breslin

Research Scientist

Cobalt, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Rajka Smiljanic

Associate Professor

Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Tim Schoof

Research Scientist

University College London

Human speech processing; Speech-based assistive technology

Susanne Brouwer

Assistant Professor

Radboud University

Multilingualism; Ethics; Human speech processing

Kate Knill

Senior Researcher

Cambridge Unversity, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Multilingualism

Andrea Deme

Assistant Professor

Department of Phonetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics; Speech production

Anastassia Loukina

Research Scientist

Educational Testing Service

Phonetics; Prosody; Machine learning; Computer-assisted language learning; Ethics

Cathy Pearl

Team Leader

Google

Human-robot interaction; Virtual humans

Tanvina Patel

Research Scientist

Cogknit Semantics, India

Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Pascale Fung

Full Professor

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Multilingualism; Paralinguistics

Emma Rodero

Associate Professor

Universitat Pompeu

Human speech processing; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Esther Janse

Associate Professor

Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production

Kathleen Jepson

Postdoctoral Researcher

The University of Melbourne

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Yi Zhao

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Human speech processing; Prosody; Machine learning; Speech synthesis

Jiangyan Yi

Assistant Professor

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis

Mary Beckman

Full Professor

Ohio State University

Phonetics; Phonology; Language acquisition

Alejandrina Cristia

Research Scientist

Laboratoire de sciences cognitives et de psycholinguistique, Département d’études cognitives, ENS, EHESS, CNRS, PSL University

Language acquisition; Speaker recognition

Dorothea Kolossa

Associate Professor

Ruhr University Bochum

Multimodal processing; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Machine learning; Human-robot interaction

Jacqueline Leybaert

Full Professor

Université libre de Bruxelles

Phonology; Language acquisition; Multimodal processing; Natural language processing

Anne Cutler

Full Professor

Western Sydney University

Human speech processing

Sahyang Kim

Full Professor

Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology

Farzaneh S. Fard

Research Scientist

Fluent.ai

Human speech processing; Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition; Machine learning; Speaker recognition; Speech-based assistive technology

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova

Senior Researcher

DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany

Human-robot interaction; Natural language processing; Natural language generation; Dialogue and discourse

Sun-Ah Jun

Full Professor

UCLA

Phonology; Prosody

Preethi Jyothi

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Automatic speech recognition; Speech technology; Machine learning

Xinhao Wang

Research Scientist

NLP & Speech Team, Educational Testing Service

Language acquisition; Computer-assisted language learning; Natural language processing; Dialogue and discourse

Catia Cucchiarini

Senior Researcher

Radboud University

Computer-assisted language learning

Karen Livescu

Associate Professor

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

Automatic speech recognition; Multimodal processing; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Bettina Braun

Full Professor

University of Konstanz

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Sociophonetics; Multilingualism

Hemlata Tak

Research Scientist

Meeami Technologies, Hyderabad, India

Speaker recognition

Julie Medero

Assistant Professor

Harvey Mudd College

Computer-assisted language learning; Natural language processing; Ethics

Justine Cassell

Full Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Virtual humans; Natural language generation; Dialogue and discourse; Corpus development

Maryam M. Al Dabel

Full Professor

College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia

Human speech processing; Speech enhancement

Meg Zellers

Assistant Professor

University of Kiel

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Prosody; Multimodal processing; Dialogue and discourse

Paola Escudero

Associate Professor

Western Sydney University

Human speech processing; Phonology; Multilingualism

Taniya Misra

Senior Researcher

Cong Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Kent

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody

Evelyne Mercure

Research Scientist

Goldsmiths, University of London + UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Multimodal processing; Natural language processing

Mirjam Broersma

Associate Professor

Radboud University Nijmegen

Human speech processing; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska

Full Professor

UMCS

Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology and pronunciation

Julia Hirschberg

Full Professor

Columbia University

Human speech processing; Prosody; Speech production; Paralinguistics; Speech synthesis; Natural language processing; Dialogue and discourse; Corpus development

Carol Espy-Wilson

Full Professor

UMaryland

Phonetics; Robust speech recognition

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Senior Researcher

Google

Automatic speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Machine learning; Information extraction

Charlotte Vaughn

Research Scientist

University of Oregon

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics; Multilingualism

Kristiina Jokinen

Senior Researcher

AI Research Center, AIST Tokyo Waterfrontand University of Helsinki

Multimodal processing; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Melanie Soderstrom

Associate Professor

University of Manitoba

Language acquisition; Human speech processing

Simone Graetzer

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Salford

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech enhancement; Speech-based assistive technology

Chiori Hori

Senior Researcher

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

Dialogue and discourse; Automatic speech recognition; Translation; Summarization

Anne Hermes

Research Scientist

Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie (UMR 7018, CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Abeer Alwan

Full Professor

UCLA

Speech production; Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition

Vered Silber-Varod

Senior Researcher

The Open University of Israel

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Emily M. Bender

Full Professor

University of Washington

Multilingualism; Natural language processing; Ethics

Helen Meng

Full Professor

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dialogue and discourse; Information extraction

Valerie Hazan

Full Professor

UCL (University College London)

Human speech processing; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multimodal processing; Dialogue and discourse

Odette Scharenborg

Associate Professor

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Human speech processing; Automatic speech recognition

Sonia Frota

Full Professor

University of Lisbon (Phonetics and Phonology Lab, Lisbon Baby Lab, School of Arts and Humanities)

Human speech processing; Phonology; Prosody; Language acquisition

Sunayana Sitaram

Senior Researcher

Microsoft Research India

Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Dialogue and discourse

Heidi Christensen

Assistant Professor

University Sheffield

Automatic speech recognition; Speech-based assistive technology

Yiya Chen

Associate Professor

Leiden University Center for Linguistics & Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition

Speech production; Prosody; Human speech processing

Alexandra Jesse

Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multimodal processing

Eugenia San Segundo

Research Scientist

Department of Spanish Language & General Linguistics at the National University of Distance Education (UNED), Madrid, Spain

Phonetics; Prosody; Sociophonetics; Speaker recognition

Ann Bradlow

Full Professor

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Hae-Sung Jeon

Assistant Professor

University of Central Lancashire

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Corpus development

Elizabeth Shriberg

Team Leader

Chief Science Officer, Ellipsis Health, San Francisco

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Prosody; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition; Natural language processing; Dialogue and discourse; Corpus development

Rachel Ostrand

Research Scientist

IBM Research

Human speech processing; Speech production; Multimodal processing; Dialogue and discourse

Maxine Eskenazi

Senior Researcher

Carnegie Mellon University

Dialogue and discourse; Virtual humans

Lori Lamel

Senior Researcher

LIMSI CNRS

Automatic speech recognition; Multilingualism; Morphology and pronunciation; Corpus development

Mariapaola D’Imperio

Full Professor

Rutgers University, Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody

Nanette Veilleux

Full Professor

Simmons University

Prosody

Oumayma Al Dakkak

Full Professor

Higher Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology: HIAST Department of Telecommunications

Prosody; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis; Natural language processing

Margaret E. L. Renwick

Assistant Professor

University of Georgia

Speech production; Phonetics; Phonology

Jennifer Cole

Full Professor

Northwestern University, Department of Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multilingualism; Dialogue and discourse

Rupal Patel

Full Professor

VocaliD Inc; Northeastern University

Prosody; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis; Speech-based assistive technology

Isabel Trancoso

Full Professor

INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico

Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Speech synthesis

Milica Gašić

Full Professor

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Machine learning; Dialogue and discourse

Esther Klabbers-Judd

Senior Researcher

ReadSpeaker

Prosody; Machine learning; Speech synthesis; Natural language processing; Morphology and pronunciation

Jesin James

Research Scientist

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Paralinguistics; Speech synthesis; Human-robot interaction

Laurence Bruggeman

Postdoctoral Researcher

The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University

Human speech processing

Yao Qian

Senior Researcher

Educational Testing Service

Automatic speech recognition; Dialogue and discourse

Niamh Kelly

Assistant Professor

American University of Beirut

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production; Multilingualism

Cristina Guerrero

Team Leader

Amberscript/ Contexta360

Automatic speech recognition; Natural language processing; Corpus development