Meet Denise Dipersio Associate Director at Linguistic Data Consortium sharing her experience with us.
Host: Pascal Hecker
Post-production: Wei Xue
Meet Chin Kum Wai Manager in innovation and partnerships of Klass, a company that constantly focuses in innovating to produce software and hardware solutions that enhance public safety.
Host: Pascal Hecker
Post-production: Zhengjun Yue, Pascal Hecker
Meet Sebastian Bayerl, Professor at Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences sharing his experince with us.
Host: Pascal Hecker
Post-production: Zhengjun Yue, Pascal Hecker
Meet Xiyuan Gao, PhD candidate in University of Groningen campus Fryslan, and focuses on pragmatic language understanding in Human-Machine-Interaction (HMI), with an emphasis on how multimodal cues.
Host: Spyretta Leivaditi
Post-production: Pascal Hecker
Meet Janine Rugayan software developer in Gintel AS sharing her experience wih us.
Host: Pascal Hecker
Post-production: Mohammed Mosuily
Meet Louis ten Bosch, Senior Researcher Radboud University and Technical committee lead in Interspeech 2025, who shares his background and giving us insights on Evaluating the Usefulness of Non-Diagnostic Speech Data for Developing Parkinson's Disease Classifiers . A paper that he co-authored with TY Zhong, E Janse, C Tejedor-Garcia, M Larson.
Host: Spyretta Leivaditi
Post-production: Pascal Hecker, Spyretta Leivaditi
Roger Moore Professor of Spoken Language Processing who received the ISCA Medal for his contributions to spoken language processing join Speech Pitch podcast one more time having a fun and refreshing discussion with us.
Host: Paige Tuttösí
Post-production: Snigdha Banik
Meet Signe Gram Sand, MSc student in Aarhus Universitet and winner of Best poster award of Young Female Reseacher in Speech workshop.
Host: Spyretta Leivaditi
Post-production: Pascal Hecker
Meet Yaroslav Getman, PhD Candidate at Aalto University, specializing in self-supervised speech representation learning and its applications in automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speech technology for underrepresented languages.
Host: Priyanshi Pal
Post-production: Wenxi Fei
Meet Catarina Bolteho PostDoctoral researcher in INESC-ID and one of the original hosts of Speech Pitch this time as a guest.
Host: Pascal Hecker
Post-production: Wenxi Fei
Meet Björn Professor of Health Informatics at TUM and Chi-Chun (Jeremy) Lee Professor at National Tsing Hua University.
Host: Pascal Hecker
Post-production: Wei Xue
Meet Takayuki Arai Professor in Sophia University with research interest in Speech Communication, Acoustics, Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Processing for People with Communication Disorders. He was a part of Show and Tell
Host: Paige Tuttösí
Post-production: Snigdha Banik
Meet Robin Netzorg PhD researcher at UC Berkeley and Juliana Francis PhD researcher in KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Host: Paige Tuttösí
Post-production: Snigdha Banik
On Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th
Meet us in Ahoy Center at Dock 17
From 09.00 – 11.00 and from 14.00 – 17.00
Overall 105 mentees and 40 mentors registered, will meet us on 19th of August 2025, during Interspeech 2025.
This is the highest participation EVER!!
Round table event
Location: Foyer 2.2
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30pm
One-on-one mentoring is up to the participants availability during Interspeech.
Meet us on 21st of August 2025
Location: room Port 1B
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30 pm
Registration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUo0xDH5la8yjr9B4TWYrw3lRwsyTfR7wqwOpDu-_cCqn2sg/viewform
Mentors: Felix Burkhardt (audEERING GmbH, Germany), Ting Dang (University of Melbourne, Australia), José González-López (University of Granada, Spain), Catherine Lai (Universita of Edinburgh, Scotland)
In this episode we share information about Rotterdam, the host city of Interspeech 2025. You will learn how you can travel from the airport to the conference venue itself, what to pack for this trip, the food culture of Netherlands, fun activities and some survival Dutch.
Listen to:
Hosts: Pascal Hecker, Spyretta Leivaditi, Wei Xue
Guest Host: Marjolein van Os
Editors: Pascal Hecker, Spyretta Leivaditi, Mohammed Mosuily, Paige Tuttösí, Snigdha Banik, Wenxi Fei
0:00:00 - Intro
00:00:32 - Introduction Marjolein
00:01:23 - Rotterdam
00:03:22 - View Points and Architecture
00:07:11 - Sightseeing: Cube Houses
00:08:24 - Sightseeing: Markthal
00:09:04 - Other cities in the Netherlands
00:10:17 - Nicknames of buildings
00:11:23 - Survival Information: language
00:12:07 - Survival Information: currency and public transportation
00:14:25 - Survival Information: safety, red light district
00:17:04 - Survival Information: the weather
00:19:17 - Survival Information: what to pack
00:21:54 - Survival Information: how to get to the Interspeech venue
00:23:52 - Survival Information: trains
00:25:50 - Survival information: accommodation
00:27:47 - Food
00:33:01 - Customs in restaurants
00:39:55 - Desserts and candies
00:41:12 - Souvenirs
00:45:26 - Other cities to visit
00:50:53 - Windmills in the Netherlands
00:52:41 - Survival Dutch
00:53:31 - Emergency numbers
00:54:26 - See you all in Rotterdam!
00:55:02 - Outro
In this episode, Georgia Maniati, a Speech Scientist specializing in Text-to-Speech, shares her career path. She recounts her evolution from a linguist to a speech scientist, detailing her experiences in Greece, Edinburgh, and Italy, and how these shaped her current role. Georgia also discusses the current hurdles in text-to-speech technology, particularly for low-resource languages such as Greek.
00:00:11 - intro
00:00:49- Georgia's vita
00:10:20 - Fellowships for young researchers
00:17:04- Georgia's role at Samsung
00:21:31 - hard skills in her position
00:26:47 - recent, exciting projects she worked on
00:31:22 - challenges in developing synthetic voices
00:33:41 - Greek is a low-resource language, which challenges does it imply?
00:34:38 - naturalness of TTS
00:39:03 - mentoring and volunteering activities
00:43:37 - young female researchers in speech
00:45:20 - science communication for non expert audiences
0:53:32 - gender bias in TTS
00:53:37 - current blind spots in industry
00:56:08 - biggest challenges in her journey
00:59:38 - biggest motivation at work and what's next
01:01:11 - what did she wish to know earlier in her career?
01:02:33 - the question from Titouan Parcollet
01:03:49 - her question for the next guest
01:04:19 - outro
The most long-awaited episode of 2025, the mental health episode is here.
In this episode the Speech Pitch team asked your question to Jasmina Bakic, who is a scientific researcher and psychologist in a psychology practice person-centered in Amsterdam. You will hear 3 stories from our audience and Jasmina's responses to them and to the many questions related to burn out, self doubt, toxic enviroments, self-harm, ADHD and how to seek for help.
Hosts: Priyanshi Pal, Spyretta Leivaditi, Orchid Chetia Phukan, Sarthak Jain
Editors: Pascal Hecker, Snigdha Banik, Spyretta Leivaditi, Kalliopi Kakamouka
0:00:00 intro
0:00:x introducing Jasmina and her areas of interest at work
0:04:52 first story: burn out
0:15:35 potential way outs for burnout
0:17:50 second story: depression upon entering a PhD
0:23:15 should you share mental health concerns with your supervisor?
0:25:25 if your advisor is not empathetic, how should you get help instead?
0:27:55 third story: how do I build effective relationships with my co-workers
0:37:50 how do you ensure better collaboration in the research effort?
0:43:42 short question section: how can one stay focused if your supervisor doesn't support you
0:47:30 how can one cope with toxic behaviour of people around you?
0:57:00 how do you know that resigning is the right decision?
1:00:49 how to get out of a phase of self-doubt?
1:04:56 what is a healthy way of self-worth?
1:11:28 Balance between competition and your own pace
1:14:57 fear of being judged to ask "stupid questions"
1:19:35 how can you react to unfruitful feedback?
1:22:02 how to overcome the feeling of not being sufficient
1:25:56 how to spot someone who might be considering self-harm
1:29:40 how to persuade someone to seek help
1:32:08 how can a supervisor grief after an unfortunate event
1:36:40 ADHD in adults
1:43:08 take-home-message
1:43:48 outro
This is the uncut version of our episode with Say IT Labs. We meet Lukas Latacz and Erich Reiter, founders of Say IT Labs, and discuss their career, the founding process of their company, and their contribution to pathological speech using their Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications.
Hosts: Pascal Hecker, Spyretta Leivaditi
Editors: Pascal Hecker, Snigdha Banik, Spyretta Leivaditi, Kay Berkling, Kalliopi Kakamouka, Mohammed Mosuily
0:00:00 - Intro
0:00:30 - Introducing Erich Reiter and Lukas Latacz
0:04:22 - The origin story of SAY IT Labs
0:05:56 - How Erich came to Belgium
0:07:33 - Challenges when founding the company
0:12:18 - How did they secure initial funding
0:15:00 - SAY IT Labs as a company
0:19:43 - The science of stuttering and the game stutter stars
0:26:10- How is it validated?
0:30:00 - Different languages
0:31:35 - Smart glasses for Parkinson's
0:38:30 - Advice for young entrepreneurs
0:47:20 - Work life balance
0:53:08 - Question from Titouan: What is your biggest challenge to overcome for your product to succeed?
0:56:44 - Question for the next guest: How to transition from monolingual to multilingual approaches?
0:57:06 - Support SAY IT Labs: interns
0:57:50: - Outro