Speech Science Events
Phonetics Colloquium
Research findings and ongoing work in phonetics are presented in the form of lectures and discussions in our colloquium. It usually takes place on Wednesdays from 2:15 to 3:45 PM in room 5.08 (new room) in building C7.2.
For questions and suggestions please contact Jürgen Trouvain.
Summer semester 2026
| 22 Apr 2026 | Sascha Schäfer (UdS) | On the role of inhalation noises in forensic phonetic casework: Practice, findings, and perspectives |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Lena Sophia Oberkircher (in cooperation with Jesujoba Alabi, Dietrich Klakow and Jürgen Trouvain, all UdS) | Saar-Voice: A multi-speaker Saarbrücken dialect speech corpus |
| 10 June 2026 (postponed to a different day and unusual time) | Ekaterina Shepel (UdS) | Creaky voice in German: first findings on the inter-dialect variability |
| 17 June 2026 | Heiner Apel (RWTH Aachen) | TBA |
| 24 June 2026 | Masha Razguliaeva and Roland Meyer (HU Berlin) | Prosody of Russian and Polish polar questions in the light of parsed telephone corpora |
| 1 July 2026 | Christina Pollkläsener (UdS) | TBA |
| 8 July 2026 (unusual time) | Josh Penney (Macquarie U Sydney, Australia) | TBA |
| 15 July 2026 | Katharina Zahner-Ritter (U Trier) | TBA |
Conferences and Workshops
Scientific events organized by members of the phonetic research group:
- Workshop on Inter-disciplinary Approaches to Respiration in Language, Speech and Other Vocalizations
November 20-21, 2025, Saarland University
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Susanne Fuchs)
- Workshop on Slavic Prosody
November 21-22, 2024, Saarland University
(organized by Bistra Andreeva)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~andreeva/SlavicProsody/SP_WS.html - Workshop on Judeo-Spanish
July 12-13, 2024, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
(organized by Christoph Gabriel, Jonas Grünke, Susann Fischer and Bistra Andreeva)
https://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~andreeva/projekt_homepage/workshop.html - Workshop on Prosodic Features of Language Learners' Fluency
July 1, 2024, Leiden, The Netherlands
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius and Nivja de Jong)
https://l2fluency.lst.uni-saarland.de/ - Workshop on Limits and Benefits of Information-Theoretic Perspectives in Spoken Communication
August 19, 2023, Dublin, Ireland
(organized by Bistra Andreeva, Omnia Ibrahim, Bernd Möbius, James Whang and Ivan Yuen)
https://lbit2023.lst.uni-saarland.de/ - Workshop on Lexical and fixed word stress (WS 8 - 55th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea)
August 24-25, 2022, University of Bucharest, “Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti” Institute of Linguistics"
(organized by Mirena Patseva, Bistra Andreeva and Vesela Chergova)
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2022/calls-workshop-proposals/ - Workshop on Measurement of Speech Respiration and Speech Preparation Phases
February 18-19, 2020, Saarland University
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Bernd Möbius)
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~trouvain/Workshop_2020.html - Third International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research
September 13-14, 2019, Vienna
(organised by Michael Pucher, Jürgen Trouvain, and Carina Lozo)
https://hscr19.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/ - ESSV 2017 - 29. Conference "Elektronische Sprachsignalverarbeitung"
March 15-17, 2017, Saarland University
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Ingmar Steiner and Bernd Möbius)
http://essv2017.coli.uni-saarland.de/ - Workshop on Feedback in Pronunciation Training
November 5-6, 2015, Hofgut Imsbach
(organized by Jeanin Jügler, Jürgen Trouvain, and Bernd Möbius)
http://www.ifcasl.org/feedback_workshop.html/ - International Workshop on the History of Speech Communication Research
September 4-5, 2015, TU Dresden
(organized by Rüdiger Hoffmann and Jürgen Trouvain)
http://www.ias.et.tu-dresden.de/ias/systemtheorie-und-sprachtechnologie/hscr-2015/ - Satellite Workshop on Phonetic Learner Corpora
August 12, 2015, ICPhS Glasgow
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Frank Zimmerer, Mária Gósy, and Anne Bonneau)
http://www.ifcasl.org/workshop.html/ - 4th Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and Other Non-verbal Vocalisations in Speech
April 14-15, 2015, TU Twente
(organized by Khiet Truong, Dirk Heylen, Jürgen Trouvain, and Nick Campbell)
https://laughterworkshop2015.wordpress.com/ - International Workshop on Multilinguality in Speech Research: Data, Methods and Models
April 8-11, 2014, Schloss Dagstuhl
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Bernd Möbius, and Ingmar Steiner)
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/dagstuhl-14/ - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Non-Verbal Vocalisations in Speech
October 26-27, 2012, Trinity College Dublin.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Khiet Truong and Nick Campbell)
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-12/ - Interdisciplinary Workshop on Laughter and other Interactional Vocalisations in Speech
February 27-28, 2009, Representation of the Saarland, Berlin.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Nick Campbell)
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-09/ - 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS)
August 6-10, 2007, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Bill Barry (chair) and Jürgen Trouvain (local organiser))
http://www.icphs2007.de/ - Interdisciplinary Workshop on The Phonetics of Laughter
August 4-5, 2007, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Nick Campbell)
http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/conf/laughter-07/ - Non-Native Prosody: Phonetic Description and Teaching Practice
2005, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain and Ulrike Gut)
Program - Symposium for Bill Barry's 60th anniversary
April 2003, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jürgen Trouvain, Jaques Koreman, Martine Grice, and Bistra Andreeva)
Abstracts of the Symposium - Workshop on Phonetics & Phonology in Automatic Speech Recognition
March 1-3, 2000, Saarland University, Saarbrücken.
(organized by Jaques Koreman, Bistra Andreeva, and Katrin Kirchhoff)
Proceedings of the Workshop (PHONUS 5) - English Pronunciation Training at German Universities, Colleges of Education and Polytechnics
September 25-28, 1995, Sonnenberg International Centre, St. Andreasberg/Harz.
(organized by Bill Barry and Tony Addison)
Proceedings of the Workshop (PHONUS 2)