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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Olcay Türk from the #BielefeldUniversity #Phonetics group is presenting joint work with Stefan Lazarov, Yu Wang, Angela Grimminger, Hendrik Buschmeier & Petra Wagner: “When “yeah” means “not quite”: Multimodal detection of backchannels expressing incomplete understanding”. Sep 30 at #Interspeech2026

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Join us in Sydney for Interspeech 2026, the premier international conference on speech science and technology, celebrating diversity, equity, and innovation from 28 September to 1 October 2026.

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Attending #Interspeech2026 in Sydney? Don’t miss the contributions from the #BielefeldUniversity #Phonetics group! On Sep 29 Farhat Jabeen starts with a survey talk on “Pronunciation Diversity” and an oral presentation on “The (non-)universality of prominence and Intonation Phrases” #LINCC #CRC1646

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Join us in Sydney for Interspeech 2026, the premier international conference on speech science and technology, celebrating diversity, equity, and innovation from 28 September to 1 October 2026.

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Do you want to teach, they asked. Uhm, sure. Like what? Oh, something on sociophonetics? OK, say no more… 😎

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Unfortunately, I was not able to present this little study at this year's #ESSV conference. If you missed me in Eichstätt, you can check out the paper now! 🤓 We show that #LLM based ASR or phonetic transcription struggles with novel phonetic forms. #CRC1646 #LINCC

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ESSV 2026 Submission: How well can LLMs handle novel phonetic forms?

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Petra Wagner @petrasusannewagner.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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.

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Fritz Seebauer from the #Bielefeld University #Phonetics group successfully defended his doctoral dissertation “Synthetic Speech Evaluation - Quality and Context”. Congratulations Dr. Seebauer! 🥳👨‍🎓

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Petra Wagner @petrasusannewagner.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Am I evil? Am I likeable? Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here: bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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...

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#AAAI26 This year, in addition to five human reviewers, we also received an AI review. The humans sort of liked the paper, so there's hope. The AI, however, took a bolder approach: it confidently d...

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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

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SFB 1412 Register @sfb1412.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

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 […]

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Letzter Tag der #GAL2025 in Hildesheim. Heute mit einem Vortrag zu phonetischer Kreativität. 😎 #CRC1646 #LINCC

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Petra Wagner @petrasusannewagner.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Research Gate asked me to confirm my authorship of the paper „Fundamentals: cleaning with ultrasound“ - I was tempted… #phonetics #articulation #multimodal

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Daniel Duran @simphon.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

“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.

Daniel Duran and Bastian Bunzeck at the poster presentation

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Petra Wagner @petrasusannewagner.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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...

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Petra Wagner @petrasusannewagner.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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

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Petra Wagner @petrasusannewagner.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

#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? 😱

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Berlitz II. @vonmandelbrot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

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Mike Taylor 🦕 @mike.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

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 […]

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