Women in Speech

Emily M. Bender

Full Professor

University of Washington

Multilingualism; Natural language processing; Ethics

Nan Xu Rattanasone

Postdoctoral Researcher

Child Language Lab, Macquarie University

Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Britta Wrede

Full Professor

University of Bielefeld

Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Justine Cassell

Full Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

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

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

Amalia Arvaniti

Full Professor

University of Kent

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

Lauren Harrington

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of York

Sociophonetics; 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

Jennifer Williams

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Southampton

Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis; Ethics

Theodora Chaspari

Assistant Professor

Texas A&M University

Multimodal processing; Human-robot interaction

Barbara Schuppler

Senior Researcher

Graz University of Technology, Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory

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

Bettina Braun

Full Professor

University of Konstanz

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

Vivian Yun-Nung Chen

Assistant Professor

National Taiwan University

Dialogue and discourse; Multilingualism; Machine learning

Julie Wall

Associate Professor

University of East London

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

Kate Knill

Senior Researcher

Cambridge Unversity, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Multilingualism

Jacqueline Leybaert

Full Professor

Université libre de Bruxelles

Phonology; Language acquisition; Multimodal processing; Natural language processing

Sayaka Shiota

Assistant Professor

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Annie Tremblay

Associate Professor

University of Kansas

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multilingualism

Jesin James

Research Scientist

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Paralinguistics; Speech synthesis; Human-robot interaction

Alice Turk

Full Professor

University of Edinburgh

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Leda Sari

Research Scientist

Facebook AI

Automatic speech recognition; Multimodal processing; Robust speech recognition; Machine learning

Pallavi Baljekar

Software Engineer

Google Translate Research

Prosody; Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Speech synthesis; Translation

Yulan Liu

Research Scientist

Amazon

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

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Senior Researcher

Google

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

Catalina Torres

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Zurich

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multilingualism

Odette Scharenborg

Associate Professor

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Human speech processing; Automatic speech recognition

Isabel Trancoso

Full Professor

INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico

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

Oumayma Al Dakkak

Full Professor

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

Prosody; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis; Natural language processing

Susannah Levi

Associate Professor

New York University

Phonetics; Phonology; Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Speaker recognition

Prof Kay Berkling, PhD

Full Professor

Karlsruhe University

Language acquisition; Speech synthesis; Computer-assisted language learning; Natural language processing; Morphology and pronunciation; Corpus development

Mariapaola D’Imperio

Full Professor

Rutgers University, Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody

Dorothea Kolossa

Full Professor

TU Berlin

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

Zoraida Callejas

Associate Professor

University of Granada

Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics; Virtual humans; Speech-based assistive technology; Natural language processing; Dialogue and discourse; Corpus development

Mounya Elhilali

Full Professor

Johns Hopkins University

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

Irene Lorenzini

Postdoctoral Researcher

Melissa Baese-Berk

Associate Professor

University of Oregon

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Michelle Cohn

Postdoctoral Researcher

UC Davis

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Prosody; Speech production; Paralinguistics; Human-robot interaction; Virtual humans

Pascale Fung

Full Professor

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Multilingualism; Paralinguistics

Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Research Scientist

EPFL

Speech synthesis; Dialogue and discourse

Molly Babel

Associate Professor

University of British Columbia

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

Rosanna Milner

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Sheffield

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning

Aude Noiray

Research Scientist

Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage (CNRS UMR5596)

Margaret E. L. Renwick

Assistant Professor

University of Georgia

Speech production; Phonetics; Phonology

Preeti Rao

Full Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Multimodal processing; Speech enhancement; Computer-assisted language learning

Katie Drager

Associate Professor

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Sociophonetics; Human speech processing; Phonetics

Khiet Truong

Assistant Professor

Human Media Interaction, University of Twente

Paralinguistics

Xianxian Zhang

Research Scientist

Amazon Corp.

Multimodal processing; Speech enhancement; Machine learning; Speaker recognition

Karen Kaushansky

Research Scientist

Independent Consultant

Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Julia Hockenmaier

Associate Professor

University of Illinois

Natural language processing

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

Simone Graetzer

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Salford

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

Emma Rodero

Associate Professor

Universitat Pompeu

Human speech processing; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Laurence Devillers

Full Professor

Sorbonne University CNRS (LIMSI Lab)

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

Maëva Garnier

Research Scientist

GIPSA-lab / CNRS

Phonetics; Sociophonetics; Speech production; Multimodal processing; Speech enhancement

Julie Medero

Assistant Professor

Harvey Mudd College

Computer-assisted language learning; Natural language processing; Ethics

Jiangyan Yi

Associate Professor

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis

Ebru Arısoy-Saraçlar

Senior Researcher

Patti Adank

Full Professor

Speech, hearing and Phonetic Sciences, University Colelge London

Human speech processing

Ganna Raboshchuk

Research Scientist

ELSA Corp.

Computer-assisted language learning

Taniya Misra

Senior Researcher

Paola Escudero

Associate Professor

Western Sydney University

Human speech processing; Phonology; Multilingualism

Sunayana Sitaram

Senior Researcher

Microsoft Research India

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

Shammur Absar Chowdhury

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Trento

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

Julia Hirschberg

Full Professor

Columbia University

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

Christine Mooshammer

Full Professor

Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Phonetics; Prosody; Sociophonetics; Speech production

Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska

Full Professor

UMCS

Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology and pronunciation

Mari Ostendorf

Full Professor

University of Washington

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

Sahyang Kim

Full Professor

Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology

Laurence Bruggeman

Postdoctoral Researcher

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

Human speech processing

Valerie Hazan

Full Professor

UCL (University College London)

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

Yaru Wu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology - CNRS & MoDyCo - CNRS

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production; Language acquisition

Anne Hermes

Research Scientist

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

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Nadine Lavan

Research Scientist

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

Human speech processing; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Rachel Ostrand

Research Scientist

IBM Research

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

Hae-Sung Jeon

Assistant Professor

University of Central Lancashire

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Corpus development

Sarah Verhulst

Associate Professor

Ghent University

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

Sun-Ah Jun

Full Professor

UCLA

Phonology; Prosody

Kathrin Feindt

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Kiel

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Dialogue and discourse

Kristin Van Engen

Assistant Professor

Washington University in Saint Louis

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Multilingualism; Multimodal processing

Efthymia Kapnoula

Postdoctoral Researcher

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Human speech processing; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova

Senior Researcher

DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany

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

Jeesun Kim

Full Professor

The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

Prosody; Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics

Mara Breen

Associate Professor

Mount Holyoke College

Prosody; Human speech processing

Rosalind Wright Picard

Full Professor

MIT Media Lab

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

Patricia Keating

Full Professor

UCLA Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production

Emer Gilmartin

Research Scientist

Helen Hastie

Full Professor

Heriot Watt University

Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Diane Litman

Full Professor

University Pittsburgh

Dialogue and discourse

Suzy Ahn

Assistant Professor

University of Ottawa

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production; Corpus development

Cathy Pearl

Team Leader

Google

Human-robot interaction; Virtual humans

Marilyn Walker

Full Professor

University Santa Cruz

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

Rosa González Hautamäki

Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Human speech processing; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Yilin Pan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Cathi Best

Full Professor

Western Sydney University

Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Susanne Fuchs

Research Scientist

Leibniz Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft

Phonetics; Prosody; Speech production; Ethics

Alexis Deighton MacIntyre

Postdoctoral Researcher

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge

Human speech processing; Prosody; Speech production

Carol Espy-Wilson

Full Professor

UMaryland

Phonetics; Robust speech recognition

Tanvina Patel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), The Netherlands

Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition

Rupal Patel

Full Professor

VocaliD Inc; Northeastern University

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

Helena Moniz

Research Scientist

INESC-ID

Prosody; Sociophonetics; Translation

Cong Zhang

Assistant Professor

Newcastle University

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production; Speech synthesis

Penny Karanasou

Research Scientist

Amazon Alexa AI, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Sarah Ita Levitan

Assistant Professor

Hunter College, City University of New York

Human speech processing; Prosody; Paralinguistics; Dialogue and discourse

Andrea Deme

Assistant Professor

Department of Phonetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics; Speech production

Jody Kreiman

Full Professor

UCLA Depts. of Head and Neck Surgery and Linguistics

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

Janet Pierrehumbert

Full Professor

University of Oxford

Multilingualism; Machine learning; Morphology and pronunciation

Catherine Breslin

Research Scientist

Cobalt, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Chitralekha Gupta

Postdoctoral Researcher

National University of Singapore

Prosody; Human-robot interaction; Computer-assisted language learning; Speech-based assistive technology; Morphology and pronunciation

Grazyna Demenko

Full Professor

Adam Mickiewicz University

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

Purvi Agrawal

Research Scientist

Microsoft

Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition; Machine learning

Abeer Alwan

Full Professor

UCLA

Speech production; Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition

Katharina von Kriegstein

Full Professor

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Amy J. Schafer

Full Professor

University of Hawaii

Human speech processing; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Petra Wagner

Full Professor

University of Bielefeld

Prosody; Speech synthesis; Dialogue and discourse

Sneha Das

Assistant Professor

Technical University of Denmark

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing; Robust speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speech-based assistive technology; Natural language processing; Dialogue and discourse; Corpus development; Ethics

Esther Klabbers-Judd

Senior Researcher

ReadSpeaker

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

Deniz Başkent

Full Professor

University of Groningen

Human speech processing; Human-robot interaction; Speech-based assistive technology

Maryam M. Al Dabel

Full Professor

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

Human speech processing; Speech enhancement

Yao Qian

Senior Researcher

Educational Testing Service

Automatic speech recognition; Dialogue and discourse

Anastassia Loukina

Research Scientist

Educational Testing Service

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

Karen Livescu

Associate Professor

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

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

Dimitra Vergyri

Team Leader

Speech Technology and Research Lab

Information extraction; Paralinguistics; Multilingualism; Translation

Tara Sainath

Senior Researcher

Google, Inc.

Machine learning; Automatic speech recognition

Heidi Christensen

Assistant Professor

University Sheffield

Automatic speech recognition; Speech-based assistive technology

Caroline Henton

Senior Management

Santa Cruz CA

Speech synthesis; Phonetics

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

Nanette Veilleux

Full Professor

Simmons University

Prosody

Kathleen Jepson

Assistant Professor

University of Queensland

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Tim Schoof

Research Scientist

University College London

Human speech processing; Speech-based assistive technology

Vered Silber-Varod

Senior Researcher

Tel Aviv University

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Preethi Jyothi

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Automatic speech recognition; Speech technology; Machine learning

Bronwen Evans

Associate Professor

UCL

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics

Anne Cutler (in memoriam)

Full Professor

Western Sydney University

Human speech processing

Jennifer Cole

Full Professor

Northwestern University, Department of Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multilingualism; Dialogue and discourse

Meg Zellers

Assistant Professor

University of Kiel

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

Laura Spinu

Associate Professor

City University of New York - Kingsborough Community College

Phonetics; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Gesa Hartwigsen

Associate Professor

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Human speech processing; Phonology; Speech production; Multimodal processing

Emily Mower Provost

Associate Professor

University of Michigan

Multimodal processing; Speech-based assistive technology

Rivka Levitan

Assistant Professor

Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center

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

Yue Zhang Weninger

Postdoctoral Researcher

Affective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab

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

Barbara Grosz

Full Professor

Harvard University

Natural language processing

Mirjam Broersma

Associate Professor

Radboud University Nijmegen

Human speech processing; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Lin Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Johns Hopkins University

Speaker recognition

Ann Bradlow

Full Professor

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Manon Lelandais

Associate Professor

Université de Paris

Prosody; Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics; Dialogue and discourse

Tanaya Guha

Associate Professor

University of Glasgow

Multimodal processing; Machine learning; Paralinguistics

Anocha Rugchatjaroen

Research Scientist

NECTEC, National Science and Technology Development Agency

Speech synthesis

Lucia Donatelli

Postdoctoral Researcher

Saarland University

Dialogue and discourse; Information extraction

Natasha Warner

Full Professor

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology

Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín

Associate Professor

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Automatic speech recognition; Multimodal processing; Robust speech recognition; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speech-based assistive technology

Amelia Gully

Assistant Professor

University of York

Phonetics; Speech production; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis; Speech-based assistive technology

Postdoctoral Researcher

Outi Tuomainen

Senior Researcher

University College London

Language acquisition; Speech-based assistive technology

Gwen Brekelmans

Assistant Professor

Queen Mary University of London

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Alejandrina Cristia

Research Scientist

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

Language acquisition; Speaker recognition

Niamh Kelly

Assistant Professor

American University of Beirut

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production; Multilingualism

Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Senior Researcher

Amazon Alexa AI

Dialogue and discourse

Jelena Krivokapic

Associate Professor

University of Michigan

Prosody; Speech production; Phonology; Dialogue and discourse

Najwa Alghamdi

Assistant Professor

King Saud University

Multimodal processing; Dialogue and discourse

Jane Wottawa

Assistant Professor

Zhengjun Yue

Assistant Professor

KCL/TU Delft

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

Dayana Ribas

Research Scientist

University of Zaragoza

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

Susanne Brouwer

Assistant Professor

Radboud University

Multilingualism; Ethics; Human speech processing

Julia Strand

Assistant Professor

Carleton College

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing

Amanda Stent

Research Scientist

Bloomberg

Dialogue and discourse

Hemlata Tak

Research Scientist

Pindrop

Machine learning; Speaker recognition

Joan A. Sereno

Full Professor

University of Kansas

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Language acquisition

Michelle Huang

Research Scientist

Rev.com

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

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

Yang Liu

Team Leader

Laix Inc.

Automatic speech recognition; Dialogue and discourse; Natural language processing

Tanja Schultz

Full Professor

University of Bremen

Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Multimodal processing

Helen Meng

Full Professor

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dialogue and discourse; Information extraction

Tatiana D. Korelsky

Other

National Science Foundation

Natural language generation; Translation

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

Marianne Pouplier

Senior Researcher

Insitute of Phonetics, LMU Munich

Phonetics; Speech production; Phonology

Mary Beckman

Full Professor

Ohio State University

Phonetics; Phonology; Language acquisition

Yi Zhao

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Human speech processing; Prosody; Machine learning; Speech synthesis

Chiara Meluzzi

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Pavia

Phonetics; Phonology; Sociophonetics; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Multimodal processing; Speaker recognition; Dialogue and discourse

Zeynab Raeesy

Research Scientist

Amazon Alexa

Phonetics; Automatic speech recognition; Paralinguistics

Meghan Clayards

Associate Professor

McGill University

Human speech processing; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Rita Singh

Associate Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer-assisted language learning; Machine learning; Language acquisition

Soumi Maiti

Postdoctoral Researcher

Hema Murthy

Full Professor

IIT Madras

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

Ting Dang

Assistant Professor

University of Melbourne

Human speech processing; Paralinguistics

Tuende Szalay

Postdoctoral Researcher

The University of Sydney / The University of New South Wales

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production; Corpus development

Tomoko Matsui

Full Professor

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Speaker recognition

Verena Rieser

Full Professor

Heriot Watt University

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

Esther Janse

Associate Professor

Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production

Evelyne Mercure

Research Scientist

Goldsmiths, University of London + UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Multimodal processing; Natural language processing

Melanie Soderstrom

Associate Professor

University of Manitoba

Language acquisition; Human speech processing

Xiaoxiao Miao

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis

Yiya Chen

Associate Professor

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

Speech production; Prosody; Human speech processing

Erica Cooper

Assistant Professor

National Institute of Informatics

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

Zhou YU

Assistant Professor

Columbia University

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

Paola Garcia

Research Scientist

Johns Hopkins University

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Iona Gessinger

Postdoctoral Researcher

Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

Phonetics; Prosody; Sociophonetics; Language acquisition; Automatic speech recognition; Computer-assisted language learning

Kristiina Jokinen

Senior Researcher

AI Research Center, AIST Tokyo Waterfrontand University of Helsinki

Multimodal processing; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

June Levitt

Full Professor

Amruta Saraf

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dani Byrd

Full Professor

University of Southern California

Phonetics; Prosody; Speech production

Catia Cucchiarini

Senior Researcher

Radboud University

Computer-assisted language learning

Monorama Swain

Associate Professor

SILICON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHUBANESWAR, ODISHA,INDIA

Human speech processing; Speech production; Automatic speech recognition; Speech enhancement; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Xinhao Wang

Research Scientist

NLP & Speech Team, Educational Testing Service

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

Beena Ahmed

Associate Professor

University of New South Wales

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Computer-assisted language learning; Speech-based assistive technology

Cristina Guerrero

Team Leader

Amberscript/ Contexta360

Automatic speech recognition; Natural language processing; Corpus development

Postdoctoral Researcher

Judith Dineley

Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London

Paralinguistics; Corpus development

Eleanor Chodroff

Assistant Professor

University of Zurich

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Automatic speech recognition; Corpus development

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

Charlotte Vaughn

Research Scientist

University of Oregon

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics; Multilingualism

Sakriani Sakti

Associate Professor

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST

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

Milica Gašić

Full Professor

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Machine learning; Dialogue and discourse

virginia westwood

Postdoctoral Researcher

Independent

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

Alexandra Jesse

Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

Chiori Hori

Senior Researcher

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

Dialogue and discourse; Automatic speech recognition; Translation; Summarization

Rajka Smiljanic

Associate Professor

Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Luciana Ferrer

Senior Researcher

Computer Science Institute, University of Buenos Aires / CONICET, Argentina

Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition; Human-robot interaction; Computer-assisted language learning

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

Full Professor

Technology (NAIST),

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

Berrak Sisman

Assistant Professor

Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Human speech processing; Prosody; Machine learning; Speech synthesis

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

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