@petrasusannewagner
Speech scientist at Bielefeld University, citizen, singer Some interests: prosody, laughter, pausing in speech, voice quality, multimodal interaction, TTS, explainable AI, phonetics, speech science and technology
Had to come up with false answers for a multiple choice question (phonetics and phonology exam). Couldn’t think of any. Asked ChatGPT to generate a list of correct examples. False answers were part of result as expected. Works.
Nice work! Congrats!
Fritz Seebauer from the #Bielefeld University #Phonetics group successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Synthetic Speech Evaluation - Quality and Context”.
Congratulations Dr. Seebauer! 🥳👨🎓
Tomorrow, we will show within the science festival #geniale how AI voice modification can help explaining the subtle differences between voice qualities, expressing personality, age, mood, gender, health, and much more! #trr318, #bielefeld #tts #xAI wissenswerkstadt.de/veranstaltun...
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Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
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Es scheint im Norden mittlerweile mangels Phonemstatus eine wilde Allophonie zu herrschen. Also geht auch „habe die Ähre“ oder „Urlaub am Mähr“. Früher war das eindeutiger: „das Meedchen treegt den Keese nach Deenemark“, und nicht anders.
Here is a story about a AAAI paper that got 5 human reviews and 1 AI review. The AI generated review contained a page-long counterexample to a proof in the paper. The AI’s counter example contained hallucinated errors. How does one rebut an AI reviewer? www.linkedin.com/posts/omerbp...
Some #LLMs promise universal “speech-to-phoneme” transcription. At #P&P I presented first results on the special use-case of creative phonetic forms and discussed how well different LLMs perform on this task. Turns out: very poorly with horrendous error rates. home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025 #CRC1646
Exchange between linguistic CRCs: We are happy about an interesting new collaboration on linguistic creativity and novel phonetic forms between Prof. Dr. Christine Mooshammer (PI of project C06) and project A02 from the CRC 1646 in Bielefeld! More infos can be found here […]
Letzter Tag der #GAL2025 in Hildesheim. Heute mit einem Vortrag zu phonetischer Kreativität. 😎
#CRC1646 #LINCC
Research Gate asked me to confirm my authorship of the paper „Fundamentals: cleaning with ultrasound“ - I was tempted… #phonetics #articulation #multimodal
Daniel Duran and Bastian Bunzeck at the poster presentation
“Developmentally plausible pretraining, now also auf Deutsch: a BabyLM Dataset for German” — Today I had the pleasure to present our German BabyLM dataset together with the first author Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social to an interested and engaging audience at #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim.
Our new paper in Journal of Voice is online: voice characteristics are particularly difficult to explain to speech therapists in training if they are acoustically intransparent: www.jvoice.org/article/S089...
A big thank you to the organizers of the Workshop on Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech 2015 in Lisbon (diss2025.inesc-id.pt?page_id=47) where Simon Betz and I had the honor to present a keynote on phonetic lengthening. #phonetics #disfluencies #TTS #explainableAI
The practice follows from the circumstance that we cannot perceive short individual segments well in isolation. Adding a neutral vowel is a good idea because segments, especially approximants, are strongly shaped by their context, so using a different vowel could be misleading.
CoquiTTS supports Dutch afaik.
#nyt write on the joy of being in #bielefeld, the German town nobody really thought existed, but which has an opera house, a diverse society, and great football. #arminia. (They strangely forgot to mention the #uni-bielefeld). Will we now be discovered? Colonialized? 😱
How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
The Royal Society is dead
A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to […]
This world is very much in need of strong females and pictures of baby elephants. We may have met in 1999 when I visited Eugene during a research visit. Have recently joined this platform after a long abstinence from any social media. Greetings from Germany. Hope you are alright!