Dr Jon Barker
Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
Research interests: Robust ASR, audiovisual speech perception
Email: j.barker@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~jon/
People
Dr Jonas Beskow
Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Research interests: audiovisual speech research
Email: beskow at kth dot se
Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/~beskow/
Dr Maria Paola Bissiri
Maria Paola started working with S2S in May 2010. She is an ER based in Prague, working on Project 6.
Her research interests are phonetics and second language acquisition.
Prof Jeff Bowers
Dept of Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
Research interests: Cognitive psychology, reading, computational modelling, speech perception
Email: J.Bowers@bris.ac.uk
Website: http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/people/jeffbowers.htm
Dan Brenner
Dan worked on the transcription of English speech corpora, reduced speech, and automated phonetic alignment at MPI in the Netherlands. He has now returned to the US to continue his PhD studies.
Website: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~dbrenner
Email: Dan.Brenner@mpi.nl
Dr Guy Brown
Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
Research interests: Computational auditory scene analysis, auditory modelling
Email: g.brown@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~guy
Francesco Cangemi
ESR on Project 8 at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France; working with Mariapaola D’Imperio
Email: francesco.cangemi@lpl-aix.fr
Prof Rolf Carlson
Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Research interests: all aspects of Speech Technology, with special attention on speech synthesis and spoken dialog systems
Email: rolf at speech.kth.se
Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/~rolf/
Prof Jasone Cenoz
Department of Philology and Translation Studies, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain
Research interests: Multilingualism, psychology, language planning, L2 acquisition
Email: jasone.cenoz@ehu.es
Dr Meghan Clayards
Meghan worked with us as an ER on Project 4 at the University of York, UK, from July 2008 - Aug 2009.
In September 2009 she took up a post doctoral fellowship with the Center for Research on Language Mind and Brain in Montreal, Canada. She was working with Dr. Linda Polka and Dr. Susan Rvachew in the School of Communication Sciences Disorders at McGill University, as well as Dr. Kristine Onishi in the Psychology Department at McGill University. Her research is on adult and child speech perception, particularily with early French-English bilinguals.
In September 2010 she was appointed as Assistant Professor at McGill university. This post is split 50:50 between Linguistics and the School of Communication Sciences Disorders.
Email: meghan.clayards@mcgill.ca
Website: www.mcgill.ca/scsd/people/faculty/meghanclayards/
Prof Martin Cooke
Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
Research interests: Computational models of HSP, scene analysis, robust ASR
Email: m.cooke@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Website: http://laslab.org/martin
Dr Anna Corazza
Dept of Informatics, University "Frederick II" of Naples, Italy
Research interests: NLP, machine learning, statistical POS, syntactic parsing
Email: corazza@na.infn.it
Website: http://people.na.infn.it/~corazza/
Dr Francesco Cutugno
Dept of Informatics, University "Frederick II" of Naples, Italy
Research interests: Speech synthesis and recognition, HSP and ASR models, multilevel annotation
Email: cutugno@unina.it
Website: http://people.na.infn.it/~cutugno/
Dr Sébastien Demange
Sebastien worked for just over 18 months as an ER on Project 9 at the Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, with Dirk Van Compernolle. He is now working as a teaching assistant (ATER) at Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine (INPL), school of engineering ENSEM
Email: seb_demange@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.loria.fr/~demangs/
Dr Kris Demuynck
Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Research interests: ASR search
Email: Kris.Demuynck@esat.kuleuven.be
Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0009102e.htm
Prof MariaPaola D’Imperio
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
Research interests: Prosody, intonation, tonal alignment, laboratory phonology
Email: Dimperio@lpl.univ-aix.fr
Dr Mirjam Ernestus
Radboud University Nijmegen & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Research interests: Psycholinguistics, phonetics, casual speech
Email: Mirjam.Ernestus@mpi.nl
Website: http://mirjamernestus.ruhosting.nl/Ernestus/Home.html
Dr Robert Espesser
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
Prof Dr Ulrich Frauenfelder
Dept of Psychology, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Research interests: Psycholinguistics, logopedics, cognitive psychology
Email: Ulrich.Frauenfelder@unige.ch
Dr M. Luisa García Lecumberri
Dept of Philology and Translation Studies, University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain
Research interests: Phonetics, L2 acquisition, adverse conditions
Email: fipgalem@vc.ehu.es
Prof Gareth Gaskell
Dept of Psychology, University of York, UK
Research interests: Experimental psycholinguistics, spoken word recognition, computational modelling
Email: g.gaskell@psych.york.ac.uk
Website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mgg5
Prof Dr Mircea Giurgiu
Dept of Communications, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Research interests: Engineering methods for ASR, text-to-speech, web-based applications
Email: Mircea.Giurgiu@com.utcluj.ro
Website: http://193.226.6.174/people/giurgiu/giurgiu.html
Jan Gorisch
ESR on Project 5 at the University of Sheffield, UK; working with Guy Brown, Jon Barker and Bill Wells
Email: J.Gorisch@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Website: http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/J.Gorisch/
Prof Björn Granström
Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Research interests: Speech communication, perception and synthesis of speech
Email: bjorn@speech.kth.se
Website: http://www.speech.kth.se/~bjorn/
Dr Michele Gubian
ER on Project 11 at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands; working with Louis ten Bosch and Helmer Strik
Email: m.gubian@let.ru.nl
Website containing information and tutorials about Michele’s work on Functional Data Analysis.
Michele’s website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/gubian.php
Prof Carlos Gussenhoven
Department of Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Research interests: General and experimental phonology, prosody, intonation
Email: C.Gussenhoven@let.ru.nl
Website: http://www.ru.nl/taalwetenschap/c.gussenhoven/
Prof Sarah Hawkins
S2S Co-ordinator
Dept of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
Research Interests: Acoustic phonetics, FPD, perception, adverse conditions, formant synthesis
Email: sh110@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.ling.cam.ac.uk/people/sarah/
Prof David House
Department of Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
Research interests: multimodal speech synthesis and prosody generation for spoken dialog systems, audio-visual perception of prosody, and educational applications of speech technology. Other research interests include phonetic variation in spontaneous speech and the perception of tone and intonation.
Website: www.speech.kth.se/~davidh/
Dr Sara Howard
Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Research interests: Children’s language disorders, auditory phonetics, EPG
Email: s.howard@sheffield.ac.uk
Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hcs/staff/howard
Dr Magne Johnsen
Dept of Telecommunications, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Research interests: Machine speech and pattern recognition
Email: mhj@iet.ntnu.no
Website: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/~mhj
Dr Annett Jorschick
Annett worked with us as an ER on Project 1 at the Institute of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, from Oct 2007 - July 2009.
She is now working at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, collecting high quality audio-visual spontaneous speech corpora in German.
Email: annett.jorschick@uni-bielefeld.de
Website: http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/pers_publ/publ/PersonDetail.jsp?personId=15184996
Ahsanul Kabir
ESR on Project 5 at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Working with Mircea Giurgiu. Due to start Autumn 2008.
Email: kabirahsanul@hotmail.com
Prof Jacques Koreman
Institute for Language and Communication Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Research interests: Phonetics, voice quality, speech and speaker recognition
Email: jacques.koreman@hf.ntnu.no
Website: http://www.hf.ntnu.no/isk/koreman/homepage.php
Prof John Local
Dept of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK
Research interests: Auditory phonetics, interactional analysis, attitude
Email: lang4@york.ac.uk
Website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang4/
Bogdan Ludusan
ESR on Project 7 at the Dept of Informatics, University "Frederick II" of Naples, Italy; working with Francesco Cutugno, Jon Barker and Louis ten Bosch
Email: ludusan@na.infn.it
Dr Sven Mattys
Dept of Psychology, University of Bristol, UK
Research interests: Cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, HSP, language development
Email: sven.mattys@bristol.ac.uk
Website: http://psychology.psy.bris.ac.uk/people/svenmattys.htm
Dr Christine Meunier
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
Research interests: Acoustic phonetics, cross-linguistic production and perception
Email: christine.meunier@lpl.univ-aix.fr
Website: http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~meunier/
Dr Michele Miozzo
Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Neurolinguistics, psychology, morphology
Email: mm584@cam.ac.uk
Prof Roger Moore
Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, UK
Research interests: Speech technology algorithms, application, assessment, bridging HSP & ASR
Email: r.k.moore@dcs.shef.ac.uk
Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/
Prof Noël Nguyen
Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France
Research interests: Articulatory and acoustic phonetics, French, FPD, perception
Email: Noel.Nguyen@lpl.univ-aix.fr
Website: http://aune.lpl.univ-aix.fr/~nguyen/
Prof Dr Oliver Niebuhr
Oliver worked with us as an ER on Project 4, at the Laboratoire Parole et Langage, University of Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, from Sept 2007 - April 2009.
He is now the Junior Professor of Spoken Language Analysis at the University of Kiel, Germany.
Email: niebuhr AT linguistik.uni-kiel.de
Website: www.linguistik.uni-kiel.de/Niebuhr_index.html
Dr Dennis Norris
Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Spoken word recognition, computational perception models, memory
Email: dennis.norris@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/people-pages.php?id=98
Dr Richard Ogden
Dept of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, UK
Research interests: Auditory phonetics; interactional analysis; Finnish
Email: rao1@york.ac.uk
Website: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~rao1/
Anton Öttl
Anton worked on the transcription of Norwegian speech corpora at MPI, the Netherlands.
He has now moved to Norway to begin a PhD, also within an RTN.
Email: Anton.Oettl@mpi.nl
Prof Zdena Palková
Dept of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Research interests: Syntax, intonation, prosody
Email: zdena.palkova@ff.cuni.cz
Marco Aldo Piccolino Boniforti
ESR on Project 10 at the University of Cambridge, UK; working with Dennis Norris, Richard Ogden and Sarah Hawkins
Email: map55@cam.ac.uk
Webpage: http://www.resegone.com/mapb
Research interests: Natural Language Processing, Automatic Speech Recognition, Prosody
Dr Brechtje Post
Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
Research interests: Phonetics, phonology, morphology, intonation, French, L2
Email: bmbp2@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/bmbp2/
Olesya Rauch
ESR on Project 3 at the University of Bristol, UK; working with Sven Mattys
Email: panzyga@yahoo.de
Research interests: articulatory phonetics, speech perception and recognition, intonation, language acquisition, foreign language production and perception.
Joanna Sankowska
ESR on Project 6 at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria, Spain; working with María Luisa García Lecumberri and Martin Cooke
Email: j.sankowska@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.laslab.org/joanna
Dr Odette Scharenborg
Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Department of Language and Speech, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Email: O.Scharenborg@let.ru.nl
Website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/odettes.php
Jessamyn Schertz
Jessamyn is an ESR working on Project 1, carrying out the transcription of English speech corpora at MPI, the Netherlands.
Email: jschertz@email.arizona.edu
Barbara Schuppler
ESR on Project 2 at the Centre for Language and Speech Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands; working with Lou Boves, Mirjam Ernestus and Odette Scharenborg
Email: babsi310@hotmail.com
Website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/schuppler.php
Dr Dino Seppi
ER on Project 9 at the Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; working with Dirk Van Compernolle.
Email: dino.esat@gmail.com
Website: http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/psi/spraak/staff/?name=dseppi
Rein Ove Sikveland
ESR on Project 1 at the University of York, UK; working with John Local and Sarah Howard
Email: ros500@york.ac.uk
Dr Radek Skarnitzl
Dept of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Research interests: English, German phonetics, acoustic phonetics
Email: radek.skarnitzl@ff.cuni.cz
Website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/lide.php?x=ska
Helena Spilková
ESR on Project 1 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway; working with Wim van Dommelen and Jacques Koreman
Email: hele.spilkova@email.cz
Website: http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/helena.spilkova
Dr Helmer Strik
Dept of Language and Speech, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Research interests: ASR, pronunciation variation and assessment, episodic speech recognition
Email: strik@let.ru.nl
Website: http://lands.let.ru.nl/~strik/
Prof Torbjørn Svendsen
Dept of Telecommunications and Electronics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Research interests: Speech processing, ASR, text-to-speech, pronunciation modelling
Email: torbjorn@iet.ntnu.no
Website: http://www.iet.ntnu.no/~torbjorn/
Dr Louis ten Bosch
Dept of Linguistics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Research interests: ASR, phonetics, articulatory features, human-machine interaction
Email: l.tenbosch@let.ru.nl
Website: http://lands.let.kun.nl/staff/staffPERperson.php3?name=tenbosch
Prof Dirk Van Compernolle
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Research interests: Exemplar-based ASR, speech recognition architectures
Email: compi@esat.kuleuven.be
Website: http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~compi/
Prof Wim van Dommelen
Dept of Linguistics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Research interests: Phonetics, foreign language production and perception, hearing in noise
Email: wim.van.dommelen@hf.ntnu.no
Website: http://www.ntnu.edu/employees/wim.van.dommelen
Prof Hugo Van hamme
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Research interests: Noise robust speech recognition, acoustic modelling, missing data theory, computer aided learning
Email: hugo.vanhamme@esat.kuleuven.be
Website: http://www.kuleuven.be/cv/u0040707e.htm
Kobie van Krieken
Kobie is an ESR working on Dutch data as part of Project 1.
Her research interests are psycholinguistics and persuasive communication.
Dr Jan Volín
Dept of Phonetics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Research interests: Intonation, L1-L2 interaction
Email: jan.volin@ff.cuni.cz
Website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/en/lide-menu.php?x=vol
Pavel Vondřička
Pavel worked for 3 months on the transcription of Czech speech corpora. He was based at Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
He is now spending 10 months in Norway with a Young Guest and Doctoral Researchers’ Annual Scholarships for Investigation and Learning in Norway.
Prof Bill Wells
Department of Human Communication Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK
Research interests: Speech development and difficulties, phonetics, interactional analysis
Email: bill.wells@sheffield.ac.uk
Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/hcs/staff/wells/
Dr Laurence White
Dept of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol
Website: http://eis.bris.ac.uk/~pslsw/
Research interests: Speech production and perception, including timing, rhythm, prosodic structure, word segmentation.
Meg Zellers
ESR on Project 8 at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK; working with Brechtje Post
Email: mkz21@cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mkz21/
Magdalena Ziková
Magdalena (Magda) Zikova worked in Trondheim for 4 months on Project 1. She was transcribing speech corpora in Czech.
Her main research interests are phonetic typology and general linguistics.
Website: http://fu.ff.cuni.cz/people/magdalena-zikova/
Administrative assistant: Naomi Hilton
Dept of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
I do the S2S administration. Email me if you have questions about applying to join S2S, or would like to receive more information about S2S events.
Email: soundsen@hermes.cam.ac.uk
Website: http://www.sound2sense.eu/
Telephone: +44 1223 760822
Fax: +44 1223 335053
