Our research

Team members from this department serve on steering committees for European projects, expert panels for the European Commission and the US National Science Foundation, as well as in international and local scientific organizations such as the Center for Research and Practice in Cultural Continuity and the Stichting Open Spraaktechnologie, respectively.

Current research

Title	Lead	Funder
Synthesizing speech for Frisian and other low-resource languages	Phat Do	University of Groningen
Recognizing sarcasm in multilingual speech	Xiyuan Gao	University of Groningen
LITHME Language in the Human-Machine Era	Matt Coler	COST European Cooperation in Science and Technology
The socio-cultural dynamics of multilingualism between the Andes and Amazonia (past and present)	Nick Emlen	University of Groningen, European Research Council
Integrating varieties of speech data for advancing naturalness and expressiveness in sarcastic TTS	Li Zhu	Chinese Scholarship Council
	Aris Kargakis	University of Groningen
Speech technology for Frisian	Reihaneh Amooie	University of Groningen, Province of Fryslan
Plotting semantic shift in the field of speech synthesis	Frank Hopwood	University of Groningen
Open Text Collections: South America	Nick Emlen & Matt Coler
Low resource speech recognition and speech synthesis	Shekhar Nayak	University of Groningen
Preserving Linguistic Heritage: Digitizing Ludovico Bertonio’s texts in Aymara	Nick Emlen , Joshua Schäuble , & Matt Coler	University of Groningen
Use of Speech recognition in asylum procedures	Daniel Leix Palumbo	NWO

Completed research

Title	Lead	Funder
Dysarthria in multilingual speech	Vass Verkhodanova	University of Groningen and Province Fryslân
CoLing	Matt Coler	Marie S Curie MSCA-RISE Horizon-2020
Multilingualism in the workplace	Bianca Dijkstra	University of Groningen and Province Fryslân
EDU+: Virtual Reality in the classroom	Matt Coler	University of Groningen
European minoritized writers: identities, multiculturalism, and a post-national world	Jesse van Amelsfoort	University of Groningen and Province Fryslân
Measuring linguistic salience in multilinguals	Vincent Boswijk	University of Groningen and Province Fryslân
Phoenix	Matt Coler	FET-Open Horizon2020
Investigating adapters for speech recognition	Shekhar Nayak	University of Groningen and University of Malta

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24 January 2024 09.19 a.m.