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Resarch Topics: | Human speech processing | Phonetics | Phonology | Prosody | Sociophonetics | Speech production | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Automatic speech recognition | Multimodal processing | Robust speech recognition | Speech enhancement | Machine learning | Paralinguistics | Speaker recognition | Speech synthesis | Human-robot interaction | Virtual humans | Computer-assisted language learning | Speech-based assistive technology | Natural language processing | Natural language generation | Morphology and pronunciation | Dialogue and discourse | Information extraction | Summarization | Translation | Corpus development | Ethics

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My work focuses on the fine phonetic detail of spoken interaction between humans and computers with the aim of making this information usable for the further development of voice-activated digital assistants. In particular, I am researching accommodation phenomena and the perception of natural and synthetic voices by human users of such assistants. I have also gained expertise in the field of explainable artifcial intelligence (XAI) by analyzing speech embeddings generated by state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) models for phonetic information. Lately, I have been researching the prosody of heritage speakers of a critically endangered language. (Last update: Feb 12, 2026)

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