Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics Phonetics Computational Linguistics & Phonetics Computational Linguistics Phonetics Fachrichtung 4.7 Universität des Saarlandes

Research Projects

Current project:

GDE - Word Phonology
Grammar of German compared to other European Languages - subproject word phonology - at the Institute for German Language, Mannheim

Past projects:

German Today
Description and analysis of regional variation in (near-)standard German spoken by young and older educated adults - a large corpus based project of the Institute for German Language, Mannheim

ProPhonO
Programming course for Phoneticians Online: development of an internet-based introduction to programming for students of phonetics

ProSegKCo
Prosody of Segments in the Kiel Corpora of Read and Spontaneous Speech: modelling of duration, F0, intensity and segmental reductions in read and spontaneous speech with regression trees and multi-layer perceptrons

KaRS
My Master's Thesis project: The Kiel Corpus of Read Speech as a Resource for Speech Synthesis.

MARY
A modular German text-to-speech synthesis system, developed as a collaborative project of DFKI's language technology lab and the Institute of Phonetics at Saarland University.

MULI
Multi-level annotation and analysis of German and English corpora for investigating information structure, a collaborative project of Saarland University's departments of General Linguistics and Applied Linguistics and Translation/Interpreting.

Logox
German and English text-to-speech synthesis on the basis of microsegment concatenation, a collaborative project of G DATA Software with the Institute of Phonetics at Saarland University.

CHATR
Unit selection speech synthesis system, developed by Department 2 (Prosody Interpretation and Speech Synthesis) of the ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan.

Evaluating Prosody
Evaluating prosody in the synthesis of prompts for a telephone directory dialogue system, in collaboration with Berkom (T-Systems).