Women in Speech

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

Tanvina Patel

Research Scientist

Cogknit Semantics, India

Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Dimitra Vergyri

Team Leader

Speech Technology and Research Lab

Information extraction; Paralinguistics; Multilingualism; Translation

Mounya Elhilali

Full Professor

Johns Hopkins University

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

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

Catherine Breslin

Research Scientist

Cobalt, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Cathy Pearl

Team Leader

Google

Human-robot interaction; Virtual humans

Erica Cooper

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Informatics

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

Kay Berkling

Professor

Karlsruhe University

Speech synthesis; Natural language processing; Morphology and pronunciation

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

Jane Wottawa

Assistant Professor

Cathi Best

Full Professor

Western Sydney University

Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Nanette Veilleux

Full Professor

Simmons University

Prosody

Outi Tuomainen

Senior Researcher

University College London

Language acquisition; Speech-based assistive technology

Rosa González Hautamäki

Postdoctoral Researcher

School of Computing, University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Human speech processing; Machine learning; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Julie Wall

Associate Professor

University of East London

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

Esther Klabbers-Judd

Senior Researcher

ReadSpeaker

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

Nan Xu Rattanasone

Postdoctoral Researcher

Child Language Lab, Macquarie University

Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Preethi Jyothi

Assistant Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Automatic speech recognition; Speech technology; Machine learning

Mara Breen

Associate Professor

Mount Holyoke College

Prosody; Human speech processing

Janet Pierrehumbert

Full Professor

University of Oxford

Multilingualism; Machine learning; Morphology and pronunciation

Isabel Trancoso

Full Professor

INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico

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

Kristiina Jokinen

Senior Researcher

AI Research Center, AIST Tokyo Waterfrontand University of Helsinki

Multimodal processing; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Pascale Fung

Full Professor

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Multilingualism; Paralinguistics

Sarah Ita Levitan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Columbia University

Human speech processing; Prosody; Paralinguistics; Dialogue and discourse

Amy J. Schafer

Full Professor

University of Hawaii

Human speech processing; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Bhuvana Ramabhadran

Senior Researcher

Google

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

Ann Bradlow

Full Professor

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Milica Gašić

Full Professor

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Machine learning; Dialogue and discourse

Paola Escudero

Associate Professor

Western Sydney University

Human speech processing; Phonology; Multilingualism

Mariapaola D’Imperio

Full Professor

Rutgers University, Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody

Patricia Keating

Full Professor

UCLA Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production

Julia Strand

Assistant Professor

Carleton College

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing

Bettina Braun

Full Professor

University of Konstanz

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

Yulan Liu

Research Scientist

Amazon

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

Dorothea Kolossa

Associate Professor

Ruhr University Bochum

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

Annie Tremblay

Associate Professor

University of Kansas

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multilingualism

Katie Drager

Associate Professor

University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Sociophonetics; Human speech processing; Phonetics

Cong Zhang

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Kent

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody

Helen Meng

Full Professor

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dialogue and discourse; Information extraction

Tomoko Matsui

Full Professor

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Speaker recognition

Jennifer Cole

Full Professor

Northwestern University, Department of Linguistics

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Multilingualism; Dialogue and discourse

Vivian Yun-Nung Chen

Assistant Professor

National Taiwan University

Dialogue and discourse; Multilingualism; Machine learning

Mary Beckman

Full Professor

Ohio State University

Phonetics; Phonology; Language acquisition

Alice Turk

Full Professor

University of Edinburgh

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Chiori Hori

Senior Researcher

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

Dialogue and discourse; Automatic speech recognition; Translation; Summarization

Yaru Wu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Laboratory of Phonetics and Phonology - CNRS & MoDyCo - CNRS

Phonetics; Phonology; Speech production; Language acquisition

Tanja Schultz

Full Professor

University of Bremen

Multilingualism; Automatic speech recognition; Multimodal processing

Jesin James

Research Scientist

University of Auckland, New Zealand

Paralinguistics; Speech synthesis; Human-robot interaction

Oumayma Al Dakkak

Full Professor

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

Prosody; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis; Natural language processing

Meg Zellers

Assistant Professor

University of Kiel

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

Lucia Donatelli

Postdoctoral Researcher

Saarland University

Dialogue and discourse; Information extraction

Tatiana D. Korelsky

Other

National Science Foundation

Natural language generation; Translation

Jelena Krivokapic

Associate Professor

University of Michigan

Prosody; Speech production; Phonology; Dialogue and discourse

Heidi Christensen

Assistant Professor

University Sheffield

Automatic speech recognition; Speech-based assistive technology

Hema Murthy

Full Professor

IIT Madras

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

Theodora Chaspari

Assistant Professor

Texas A&M University

Multimodal processing; Human-robot interaction

Susannah Levi

Associate Professor

New York University

Phonetics; Phonology; Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Speaker recognition

Anne Hermes

Research Scientist

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

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Maryam M. Al Dabel

Full Professor

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

Human speech processing; Speech enhancement

Yue Zhang Weninger

Postdoctoral Researcher

Affective Computing Group, MIT Media Lab

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

Simone Graetzer

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Salford

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

Nadine Lavan

Research Scientist

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

Human speech processing; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Ganna Raboshchuk

Research Scientist

ELSA Corp.

Computer-assisted language learning

Justine Cassell

Full Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

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

Melissa Baese-Berk

Associate Professor

University of Oregon

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

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

Emily Mower Provost

Associate Professor

University of Michigan

Multimodal processing; Speech-based assistive technology

Rita Singh

Associate Professor

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer-assisted language learning; Machine learning; Language acquisition

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

Katharina von Kriegstein

Full Professor

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Human speech processing; Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics; Speaker recognition

Yao Qian

Senior Researcher

Educational Testing Service

Automatic speech recognition; Dialogue and discourse

Abeer Alwan

Full Professor

UCLA

Speech production; Automatic speech recognition; Robust speech recognition

Susanne Brouwer

Assistant Professor

Radboud University

Multilingualism; Ethics; Human speech processing

Julia Hockenmaier

Associate Professor

University of Illinois

Natural language processing

Melanie Soderstrom

Associate Professor

University of Manitoba

Language acquisition; Human speech processing

Mari Ostendorf

Full Professor

University of Washington

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

Jacqueline Leybaert

Full Professor

Université libre de Bruxelles

Phonology; Language acquisition; Multimodal processing; Natural language processing

Sun-Ah Jun

Full Professor

UCLA

Phonology; Prosody

Taniya Misra

Senior Researcher

Yiya Chen

Associate Professor

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

Speech production; Prosody; Human speech processing

Rajka Smiljanic

Associate Professor

Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Efthymia Kapnoula

Postdoctoral Researcher

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

Human speech processing; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Jody Kreiman

Full Professor

UCLA Depts. of Head and Neck Surgery and Linguistics

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

Bronwen Evans

Associate Professor

UCL

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics

Valerie Hazan

Full Professor

UCL (University College London)

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

Xinhao Wang

Research Scientist

NLP & Speech Team, Educational Testing Service

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

Niamh Kelly

Assistant Professor

American University of Beirut

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production; Multilingualism

Laurence Bruggeman

Postdoctoral Researcher

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

Human speech processing

Alexandra Jesse

Associate Professor

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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

Dilek Hakkani-Tur

Senior Researcher

Amazon Alexa AI

Dialogue and discourse

Evelyne Mercure

Research Scientist

Goldsmiths, University of London + UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

Language acquisition; Multilingualism; Multimodal processing; Natural language processing

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova

Senior Researcher

DFKI, Saarbruecken, Germany

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

Diane Litman

Full Professor

University Pittsburgh

Dialogue and discourse

Rivka Levitan

Assistant Professor

Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center

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

Caroline Henton

Senior Management

Santa Cruz CA

Speech synthesis; Phonetics

Jiangyan Yi

Assistant Professor

Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition; Speech synthesis

Anne Cutler

Full Professor

Western Sydney University

Human speech processing

Amalia Arvaniti

Full Professor

University of Kent

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

Verena Rieser

Full Professor

Heriot Watt University

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

Tim Schoof

Research Scientist

University College London

Human speech processing; Speech-based assistive technology

Meghan Clayards

Associate Professor

McGill University

Human speech processing; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Marianne Pouplier

Senior Researcher

Insitute of Phonetics, LMU Munich

Phonetics; Speech production; Phonology

Vered Silber-Varod

Senior Researcher

The Open University of Israel

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Karen Livescu

Associate Professor

Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

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

Shammur Absar Chowdhury

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Trento

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

Stefanie Shattuck-Hufnagel

Full Professor

Technology (NAIST),

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

Yang Liu

Team Leader

Laix Inc.

Automatic speech recognition; Dialogue and discourse; Natural language processing

Rupal Patel

Full Professor

VocaliD Inc; Northeastern University

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

Yi Zhao

Postdoctoral Researcher

National Institute of Informatics, Japan

Human speech processing; Prosody; Machine learning; Speech synthesis

Kathleen Jepson

Postdoctoral Researcher

The University of Melbourne

Phonetics; Phonology; Prosody; Speech production

Sakriani Sakti

Associate Professor

Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST

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

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

Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Research Scientist

EPFL

Speech synthesis; Dialogue and discourse

Jolanta Szpyra-Kozłowska

Full Professor

UMCS

Phonetics; Phonology; Morphology and pronunciation

Sahyang Kim

Full Professor

Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology

virginia westwood

Postdoctoral Researcher

Independent

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

Kristin Van Engen

Assistant Professor

Washington University in Saint Louis

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Multilingualism; Multimodal processing

Sunayana Sitaram

Senior Researcher

Microsoft Research India

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

Rachel Ostrand

Research Scientist

IBM Research

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

Margaret E. L. Renwick

Assistant Professor

University of Georgia

Speech production; Phonetics; Phonology

Barbara Grosz

Full Professor

Harvard University

Natural language processing

Odette Scharenborg

Associate Professor

Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Human speech processing; Automatic speech recognition

Zeynab Raeesy

Research Scientist

Amazon Alexa

Phonetics; Automatic speech recognition; Paralinguistics

Irene Lorenzini

Postdoctoral Researcher

Petra Wagner

Full Professor

University of Bielefeld

Prosody; Speech synthesis; Dialogue and discourse

Jeesun Kim

Full Professor

The MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University

Prosody; Multimodal processing; Paralinguistics

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

Charlotte Vaughn

Research Scientist

University of Oregon

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics; Multilingualism

Julie Medero

Assistant Professor

Harvey Mudd College

Computer-assisted language learning; Natural language processing; Ethics

Cristina Guerrero

Team Leader

Amberscript/ Contexta360

Automatic speech recognition; Natural language processing; Corpus development

Xianxian Zhang

Research Scientist

Amazon Corp.

Multimodal processing; Speech enhancement; Machine learning; Speaker recognition

Gwen Brekelmans

Research Scientist

University College London

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production; Multilingualism

Laurence Devillers

Full Professor

Sorbonne University CNRS (LIMSI Lab)

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

Carol Espy-Wilson

Full Professor

UMaryland

Phonetics; Robust speech recognition

Marilyn Walker

Full Professor

University Santa Cruz

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

Helen Hastie

Full Professor

Heriot Watt University

Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Rosalind Wright Picard

Full Professor

MIT Media Lab

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

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

Mirjam Broersma

Associate Professor

Radboud University Nijmegen

Human speech processing; Speech production; Language acquisition; Multilingualism

Andrea Deme

Assistant Professor

Department of Phonetics, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Sociophonetics; Speech production

Karen Kaushansky

Research Scientist

Independent Consultant

Human-robot interaction; Dialogue and discourse

Julia Hirschberg

Full Professor

Columbia University

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

Maxine Eskenazi

Senior Researcher

Carnegie Mellon University

Dialogue and discourse; Virtual humans

Barbara Schuppler

Senior Researcher

Graz University of Technology, Signal Processing and Speech Communication Laboratory

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

Amanda Stent

Research Scientist

Bloomberg

Dialogue and discourse

Penny Karanasou

Research Scientist

Amazon Alexa AI, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Machine learning; Natural language processing

Grazyna Demenko

Full Professor

Adam Mickiewicz University

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

Emma Rodero

Associate Professor

Universitat Pompeu

Human speech processing; Prosody; Dialogue and discourse

Hemlata Tak

Research Scientist

Meeami Technologies, Hyderabad, India

Speaker recognition

Kate Knill

Senior Researcher

Cambridge Unversity, UK

Automatic speech recognition; Speech synthesis; Multilingualism

Preeti Rao

Full Professor

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Multimodal processing; Speech enhancement; Computer-assisted language learning

Dayana Ribas

Research Scientist

University of Zaragoza

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

Sayaka Shiota

Assistant Professor

Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Paola Garcia

Research Scientist

Johns Hopkins University

Automatic speech recognition; Speaker recognition

Lori Lamel

Senior Researcher

LIMSI CNRS

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

Tara Sainath

Senior Researcher

Google, Inc.

Machine learning; Automatic speech recognition

Najwa Alghamdi

Assistant Professor

King Saud University

Multimodal processing; Dialogue and discourse

Catia Cucchiarini

Senior Researcher

Radboud University

Computer-assisted language learning

Emily M. Bender

Full Professor

University of Washington

Multilingualism; Natural language processing; Ethics

Khiet Truong

Assistant Professor

Human Media Interaction, University of Twente

Paralinguistics

Anocha Rugchatjaroen

Research Scientist

NECTEC, National Science and Technology Development Agency

Speech synthesis

Natasha Warner

Full Professor

University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Phonology

Helena Moniz

Research Scientist

INESC-ID

Prosody; Sociophonetics; Translation

Anastassia Loukina

Research Scientist

Educational Testing Service

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

Gesa Hartwigsen

Associate Professor

Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Human speech processing; Phonology; Speech production; Multimodal processing

Esther Janse

Associate Professor

Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen

Human speech processing; Phonetics; Speech production

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

Alejandrina Cristia

Research Scientist

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

Language acquisition; Speaker recognition