Daniel Duran

Sag was! | Wissenswerkstadt Bielefeld Mit Hilfe von KI Stimmeigenschaften erklärbarer machen

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...

On the right, a kangaroo standing in grassland drinking a cup of tea. On the left, text on navy background saying 'Call for Papers', with Interspeech 2026 logo above and website interspeech2026.org below.

📢 Call for papers! Join us in Sydney for #Interspeech2026, 27 September – 1 October 2026. Paper submission portal opens 17 Jan and closes 25 Feb. See you there! interspeech2026.org/en-AU/pages/...

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Am I evil? Am I likeable?

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#CfP alert! 🚨 The call for papers and theme sessions for the next International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Conference (Bielefeld, 31.08.-02.09.2026) is finally out 🎉 www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/...

Do you even need visual social cues to trigger speech register effects? Imagining to address a friend vs a policeman is enough to change speaking style (f0 in this case).

Check out our new paper in which we present an analysis of speech data collected with the #Plapper app:
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...

Netflix - "Haftbefehl"-Doku löst Hype um Reinhard Mey aus Die "Haftbefehl"-Dokumentation auf Netflix hat zahlreiche Fans des Deutsch-Rappers Aykut Anhan an den Liedermacher Reinhard Mey herangeführt. In den Sozialen Medien wird Meys Lied "In meinem Garten" a...

Netflix-Doku #Babo — was wäre das unwahrscheinlichste, das ein Film über Haftbefehl auslösen konnte: www.deutschlandfunk.de/haftbefehl-d...

Rund um den Babo-Hype liest man nun oft: „Haftbefehl gehört in die Schulen“
Ganz meine Meinung!
Ich habe da auch schon mal was vorbereitet:
― D. Duran, J. Happes & D. Schumacher (2024). Antisemitismus als „popkulturelles Phänomen“. In N. Hodaie et al. (Hrsg) (Deutsch-) Rap und Gewalt. Beltz Juventa.

Immer wieder schön, wenn im Bundesland, in dem man wohnt, ein Feiertag ist – aber im Bundesland, in dem man arbeitet, nicht. Frohes Schaffen!

More than 3200 papers? Wicked 🤓

Das hätte ich zu gerne gehört

»Lieber Friedrich,
du hast echt bezaubernde Töchter
Wir auch,
aber uns’re hausen in Löchern«
— Eko Fresh. Friedrich. 2025

Wir stellen ein: Zimmermädchen m/w/d

Es muss doch eine bessere Berufsbezeichnung geben 🤔

Eine Stunde zu früh zum Termin aus dem Haus gehetzt und erst im Auto den Fehler bemerkt: Check! 🥴

#Zeitumstellung

Experimental setup in the laboratory at Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin, November 2022.

Speech registers are not just about the choice of fancy words or complex linguistic constructions. Speakers also adjust their pronunciation in different situations. Check out our analysis of formal vs informal video interactions using a novel experimental paradigm: doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... #SFB1412

This could be the start of an exciting initiative to further research on data-efficient and developmentally plausible LMs. It's a great resource of 45 more or less carefully curated datasets for diverse languages (with 16 fillers which require substantial expansion) ― More contributions are needed!

How to get high quality, naturalistic speech recordings from the same speakers in formal vs informal situations for phonetic analysis? Check out our new paper in Register Studies which introduces a novel experimental framework involving simulated video calls! doi.org/10.1075/rs.2... #SFB1412

»…und eben ſo wenig wird man richtig ſchreiben lernen, wenn man nicht richtig ausſprechen kann.«
― Johann Christoph Adelung. 1788

»Empfinden gehet vor dem Denken, Denken vor dem Sprechen, und Sprechen vor dem Schreiben her. So wie man nicht richtig denken kann, wenn man falſch empfunden hat, ſo kann man auch nicht richtig ſprechen, wenn man nicht richtig gedacht hat, …«
― Johann Christoph Adelung. 1788

Nope. Geht gar nicht. 🙉

Neulich auch schon irgendwo gesehen. Im Norden natürlich 😆

Random quote 113:

»Es ist Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand«
— Manuellsen ft. Haftbefehl. Generation Kanack. 2010.

Why is it always reviewer 2? 🤬

In the latest Child Lang. Bulletin, we introduced IASCL's Repository of Research Papers on Underrepresented Languages, a resource designed for easy access and sharing of research on the acquisition of children learning underrepresented languages. Read more here: www.childlanguage.org/underreprese...

Using speech technology to improve communication is super important and @yuanyuanzhang.bsky.social is taking the first important steps with Matthijs Valkering. Incidentally, she shows that a personalised ASR system beats humans in recognising dysarthric speech by a large margin 🤩

#proudpromotor

Miriam Oschkinat at the poster presentation »Patterns of Variation of German Monophthongs in the PLAPPER Corpus« by Stefanie Jannedy, Melanie Weirich, Daniel Duran, Miriam Oschkinat, Jen Hay, Robert Fromont & Allie Osborne.

Melanie Weirich and Stefanie Jannedy at the poster presentation »Patterns of Variation of German Monophthongs in the PLAPPER Corpus« by Stefanie Jannedy, Melanie Weirich, Daniel Duran, Miriam Oschkinat, Jen Hay, Robert Fromont & Allie Osborne. Image by Christoph Draxler.

Best Poster Award for #Plapper at #P&P last week!
A first peak at our results shows complex patterns of regional and sociodemographic variation in the phonetic realization of German vowels. More coming soon!
www.leibniz-zas.de/de/plapper
home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025

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

Stop normalizing unpaid work in academia!

Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive mechanisms and Social Dynamics | HUM.AI.N-ACCENT | Project | Fact Sheet | HORIZON | CORDIS... HUM.AI.N-ACCENT is an interdisciplinary research project that explores the neurocognitive and social impacts of foreign-accented speech in human-human and human-AI interactions. With millions of new a...

13 PhD POSITIONS available in the framework of the HUM.AI.N-ACCENT MSCA Doctoral Network: ‘Bridging Communication Gaps in Human and Human-AI Interactions: The Role of Accented Speech on Neurocognitive mechanisms and Social Dynamics’

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Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig

Second keynote today will be given by Melanie Weirich (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena): „Sex and the City“: Geschlechtsspezifische Variation im Kontext. What a great way to start the day! #P&P
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