04.10.2023
Raphael Werner successfully defensed his PhD. The entire project team and the phonetics group congratulate him.
18.09.2023
All papers available for the Languages
Pauses in Speech special issue.
28.08.2023
Our team has presented a conference papter accepted to the
12th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW): Mikey Elmers and Éva Székely with
The impact of pause-internal phonetic particles on recall in synthesized lectures.
24.08.2023
Our team has presented a conference papter accepted to the
Interspeech 2023: Mikey Elmers, Johannah O'Mahony and Éva Székely with
Synthesis after a couple PINTs: Investigating the role of pause-internal phonetic particles in speech synthesis and perception.
11.08.2023
Our team presented four conferences papers accepted to the
20th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS): Beeke Muhlack with
Filler particles in English and Spanish L1 and L2 speech, Mikey Elmers with
Pause particles influencing recollection in lectures, Koenig, Fuchs, and Raphael Werner with
Respiratory and supralaryngeal effects on speech breathing noise across loudness conditions and speaking tasks and Yuen, Ibrahim, Andreeva, and Bernd Möbius with
Non-uniform cue-trading: Differential effects of surprisal on pause usage and pause duration in German.
31.03.2023
Beeke Muhlack et al. published a journal article in
Languages for the
Pauses in Speech special issue.
04.03.2023
Our team presented two papers at
ESSV 2023 (Mar 01-03 2023): Jürgen Trouvain and Raphael Werner with
Muster der Sprechatmung in verschiedenen Sprechstilen – eine Pilotstudie and MacIntyre and Raphael Werner with
An automatic method for speech breathing annotation.
06.10.2022
Our team has two posters and one oral presentation at the
18th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '22) conference organised by the colleagues in Bielefeld: Raphael Werner et al. with
Speaker discrimination and classification in breath noises by
human listeners, Beeke Muhlack et al. with
Acoustic characteristics of filler particles in German, and Mikey Elmers and Jürgen Trouvain with
Pause-internal particles in university lectures.
13.07.2022
Congrats to Raphael Werner who received the award for Best Student Poster Presentation at IAFPA 2022 for his submission on Speaker discrimination and classification in breath noises by human listeners.
11.07.2022
Beeke Muhlack and Raphael Werner are presenting posters at
IAFPA 2022 (July 10-13 2022).
26.05.2022
Raphael Werner presented at
Speech Prosody 2022 (May 23-26 2022).
04.03.2022
Raphael Werner receives Best Student Paper Award at ESSV 2022 (Mar 02-04 2022).
03.03.2022
Our team presented two papers at
ESSV 2022 (Mar 02-04 2022): Raphael Werner et al. with
Perceptual categorization of breath noises in speech pauses and Mikey Elmers with
Comparing detection methods for pause-internal particles.
31.01.2022
Our team has two papers accepted to
ESSV 2022 (Mar 02-04 2022): Raphael Werner et al. with
Perceptual categorization of breath noises in speech pauses and Mikey Elmers with
Comparing detection methods for pause-internal particles.
31.01.2022
Our team has a paper accepted to
Speech Prosody 2022 (May 23-06 2022): Raphael Werner et al. with
Optionality and variability of speech pauses in read speech across languages and rates.
31.01.2022
Our team has been accepted to Transkription und Annotation gesprochener Sprache und multimodaler Interaktion: Trouvain, J. & Werner, R. with A phonetic view on annotating speech pauses and pause-internal phonetic particles.
30.09.2021
Our team has one poster and two oral presentations at the
17th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '21) conference organised by the colleagues in Frankfurt/Main: Raphael Werner et al. with
Breath noise perception – a pilot study on airway usage, Beeke Muhlack and Jürgen Trouvain with
Annotationsschema für Häsitationspartikeln im phonetischen Kontext, and Mikey Elmers with
Corpus generation for research in pause-internal phonetic particles.
03.09.2021
Our team presented three papers accepted at
Interspeech 2021 (Aug 30 - Sept 03 2021): Raphael Werner et al. with
Inhalations in speech: acoustic and physiological characteristics, Beeke Muhlack et al. with
Revisiting recall effects of filler particles in German and English and Mikey Elmers et al. with
Take a breath: Respiratory sounds improve recollection in synthetic speech.
17.06.2021
Our team has three papers accepted at
Interspeech 2021 (Aug 30 - Sept 03 2021): Raphael Werner et al. with
Inhalations in speech: acoustic and physiological characteristics, Beeke Muhlack et al. with
Revisiting recall effects of filler particles in German and English and Mikey Elmers et al. with
Take a breath: Respiratory sounds improve recollection in synthetic speech.
22.01.2021
Our team presented two papers at the
32nd conference on electronic speech signal processing (03-05 Mar 2021).
14-18.12.2020
Our team presented a poster on "Exploring the presence and absence of inhalation noises when speaking and when listening" at the
International Speech Production Seminar (14-18 Dec 2020).
05.10.2020
Our team presented two posters at
Bielefeld's 2020 Laughter Workshop. The first poster is by Beeke Muhlack,
L1 and L2 production of non-lexical hesitation particles of German and English native speakers [Paper] [Poster] and the second poster is by Jürgen Trouvain and Raphael Werner,
Comparing annotations of non-verbal vocalisations in speech corpora [Paper] [Poster].
11.09.2020
Our team presented two posters at the
16th Phonetik & Phonologie (P&P '20) conference organised by the colleagues in Trier: Beeke Muhlack with
The vowel quality of non-lexical hesitation particles in German and English L1 and L2 speech [Abstract]
[Poster] and Mikey Elmers with
Pause-internal phonetic particles in speech communication [Abstract]
[Poster].
25.05.2020
We have a paper called "An acoustic analysis of inbreath noises in read and spontaneous speech" (authored by Trouvain, Werner and Möbius) at
Speech Prosody 2020 in Tokyo.
04.05.2020
We welcome two more PhD researchers, Beeke Muhlack and Mikey Elmers.
04-06.03.2020
Raphael Werner (together with Jürgen Trouvain and Bernd Möbius) gave a presentation on "Ein sprachübergreifender Vergleich des Pausenverhaltens natürlicher Sprecher in verschiedenen Sprechtempi mit TTS-Systemen" at the
"31st Conference on Electronic Processing of Speech Signals (Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung)" at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg.
18-19.02.2020
01-03.12.2019
Jürgen Trouvain (together with Raphael Werner and Bernd Möbius) gave a presentation "On acoustic features of inhalation noises in read and spontaneous speech" at the
"1st International Seminar on the Foundations of Speech (SEFOS) - Breathing, Pausing, and the VOICE" at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg.
04.11.2019
We welcome our first PhD researcher to the project, Raphael Werner.
