Speech Pitch
Episodes
#22 Hynek Hermansky & Nelson Morgan
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Join us as we sit down with Hynek and Morgan to talk all things speech research. We’re getting into the real stuff: why they started, whether th...
#21.2 Young Female* Researchers in Speech Workshop 2026 Impressions with Jhansi Mallela
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jhansi shares her unique dual perspective—firstly as a researcher pushing boundaries in the field, and secondly as a member of the PhD panel, where ...
#21.1 Young Female Reaser in Speech Workshop 2026 Impressions with Yuanyuan Zhang
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Yuanyuan joins us to talk about her research in inclusive speech technology and the power of representation in AI. Whether she’s collecting personal...
#21.0 Young Female Reaser in Speech Workshop 2026 Impressions with Chin Jou Li
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Fresh from the Young Female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW) 2025, Chin-Jou Li joins us to share her experience as a rising voice in the field....
#20.2 Speech Synthesis 2026 with Julian Zaidi and Marc-André Carbonneau from Ubisoft
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Julian Zaidi and Marc-André Carbonneau are discussing the practical differences between academic speech research and industrial application withi...
#20.1 Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025 with Xin Wang
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We travel to the Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW) 2025 to sit down with Xin Wang, Project Associate Professor at the National Institute of Informatics ...
#20.0 Welcome to Speech Synthesis Workshop 2026 with Matt Coler
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kick off the Speech Synthesis Workshop 2026 with an opening message from Matt Coler. In this introductory segment, Matt sets the stage for a year of b...
#19.4 Speech Science Festival 2026 - Hackathon winners - Yassine Tijani and Joas Walraven
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From strangers to champions! 🏆 Meet Yassine Tijani and Joas Walraven, two young innovators who crossed paths at the Speech Science Festival and dec...
#19.3 Speech science Festival 2025 - Nada Gogider with Mohammed and Jasmina Gogider talking about Research and SSF Hackathon
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Live from the Speech Science Festival! 🎤 We sat down with the University of Waterloo’s Nada Gogider and her wonderful children to get an inside l...
#19.2 Speech Science Festival 2026 - Demo of Song Composer robot for Dementia people with Paul Raingeard de la Blétière
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Your memories, composed. 🎹 Paul Raingeard de la Blétière is bridging the gap between technology and nostalgia. This demo showcases his innovative...
#19.1 Speech Science Festival 2025 - Science slam
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
We introduce three innovators pushing the boundaries of speech tech in a fast-paced "Science Slam" format.Aruna Srivastava (Univ. of Washing...
#19.0 Welcome to Speech Science festival with Ingo Siegert
01 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this kickoff episode, we head to the vibrant city of Rotterdam for the Speech Science Festival 2025. Your host and festival organizer, Ingo, sets t...
#18.12 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Roger Moore
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roger Moore Professor of Spoken Language Processing who received the ISCA Medal for his contributions to spoken language processing join Speech Pitch ...
#18.11 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Sebastian Bayerl
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Sebastian Bayerl, Professor at Rosenheim Technical University of Applied Sciences sharing his experince with us.Host: Pascal HeckerPost-productio...
#18.10 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Louis ten Bosch
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Louis ten Bosch, Senior Researcher Radboud University and Technical committee lead in Interspeech 2025, who shares his background and giving us i...
#18.9 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Denise Dipersio
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Denise Dipersio Associate Director at Linguistic Data Consortium sharing her experience with us.Host: Pascal HeckerPost-production: Wei Xue
#18.8 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Xiyuan Gao
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Xiyuan Gao, PhD candidate in University of Groningen campus Fryslan, and focuses on pragmatic language understanding in Human-Machine-Interaction...
#18.7 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Janine Rugayan
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Janine Rugayan software developer in Gintel AS sharing her experience wih us.Host: Pascal HeckerPost-production: Mohammed Mosuily
#18.6 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Chin Kum Wai
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Chin Kum Wai Manager in innovation and partnerships of Klass, a company that constantly focuses in innovating to produce software and hardware so...
#18.5 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Signe Gram Sand
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Signe Gram Sand, MSc student in Aarhus Universitet and winner of Best poster award of Young Female Reseacher in Speech workshop.Host: Spyretta Le...
#18.4 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Yaroslav Getman
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Yaroslav Getman, PhD Candidate at Aalto University, specializing in self-supervised speech representation learning and its applications in automa...
#18.3 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Takayuki Arai
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Takayuki Arai Professor in Sophia University with research interest in Speech Communication, Acoustics, Acoustic Phonetics, Speech Processing for...
#18.2 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Catarina Bolteho
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Catarina Bolteho PostDoctoral researcher in INESC-ID and one of the original hosts of Speech Pitch this time as a guest.Host: Pascal HeckerPost-p...
#18.1 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Björn Schuller and Chi-Chun (Jeremy) Lee
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Björn Professor of Health Informatics at TUM and Chi-Chun (Jeremy) Lee Professor at National Tsing Hua University.Host: Pascal Hecker Post-produ...
#18.0 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Robin Netzorg and Juliana Francis
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Robin Netzorg PhD researcher at UC Berkeley and Juliana Francis PhD researcher in KTH Royal Institute of Technology.Host: Paige TuttösíPost-pro...
Trailer: Join Speech Pitch recording session in Interspeech 2025
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
Trailer: Mentoring Event by ISCA-SAC
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Overall 105 mentees and 40 mentors registered, will meet us on 19th of August 2025, during Interspeech 2025.This is the highest participation EVER!!Ro...
Trailer: Students meet Experts by ISCA SAC
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet us on 21st of August 2025 Location: room Port 1BTime: 12:00pm - 1:30 pmRegistration Form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUo0xDH5la8yj...
#17 Get Ready for Interspeech 2025 - Rotterdam edition
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 con...
# 16 Georgia Maniati
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Georgia Maniati, a Speech Scientist specializing in Text-to-Speech, shares her career path. She recounts her evolution from a linguis...
#15 THE MENTAL HEALTH EPISODE with Jasmina Bakic and Speech Pitch
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Bonus: Say it with SAY IT Labs (Directors Cut edition)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, t...
#14 Say it with SAY IT Labs - (27th TiDF edition)
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we meet Lukas Latacz and Erich Reiter, founders of SAY IT Labs, and discuss their career, the founding process of their company, and t...
#13 Titouan Parcollet
01 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Titouan Parcollet is a “Research Scientist at the Samsung AI Center Cambridge” and an “adjunct researcher at the Cambridge Machine Learning Syst...
#12 Florian Eyben
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Florian Eyben spearheads technology and innovation at audEERING, focusing on developing industry-leading products for speech emotion recognition and d...
#11.11 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Rob van Son
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Rob van Son, Senior researcher at the Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam who shares his interests and his impressions on Interspeech 2024 in ...
#11.10 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Shrikanth Narayanan
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Shrikanth Narayanan who is professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering shares his resea...
#11.9 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Shekhar Nayak
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Shekhar Nayak, associate professor in Speech Technology in Campus Fryslân of University of Groningen. Listen about his interests, his academic j...
#11.8 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Siyang Wang
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Siyang is a PhD student in KTH Royal Institute of Technology shares his experience and impression of Interspeech 2024 in Kos. Host: Paige Tuttosi
#11.7 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Suhas BN
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Suhas, Ph.D. candidate in Informatics at Penn State University, where he works at the intersection of Machine Learning, Human-Computer Interactio...
#11.6 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Esther Klabbers
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Esther Klabbers senior speech reseracher and CEO of Phaistos Speech & Language Technology Services, shares her research interests and het impressi...
#11.5 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Mathew Magimai Doss
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Mathew Magimai Doss, Senior Researcher at Idiap Research Institute, shares his research interests and his impressions on Interspeech 2024 in Kos....
#11.4 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Iuliia Zaitova
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Iuliia, PhD Researcher at Universität des Saarlandes, sharing her research interests and impressions on Interspeech 2024 in Kos. Host: Wei Xue
#11.3 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Harm Lameris
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Harm Lameris, PhD Student in Conversational AI in KTH Royal Institute of Technolog shares his interests and his impressions on Interspeech 2024 i...
#11.2 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Thomas Rolland
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Thomas, PostDoctoral researcher in INESC-ID and one of the original hosts of Speech Pitch this time as a guest. Grab this opportunity to listen a...
#11.1 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Aaricia Herygers
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Aaricia is a ASR Researcher & Computational Linguist at Alphaspeech, introduces her interests and impressions of Interspeech 2024. Host: Spyretta...
#11.0 Interspeech 2024 Impressions - Marta Grasa Lainez
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Marta won Best Poster Award 2024 in Young female Researchers in Speech Workshop (YFRSW 2024) and shares with us her research interests and her impress...
#10 Get Ready for Interspeech 2024 - Kos Edition
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we share information about the Greek island, Kos that is hosting Interspeech 2024. You will learn how you can travel from the airport...
#9 Speech Pitch: Matt Coler
15 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Coler is an accomplished academic and a leading figure in the field of Voice Technology. He is an Associate Professor of Language and Technology ...
#8.7 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #8: Story Behind the Scene - Joys and Challenges for Conference Volunteers
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever, and farewells can be bittersweet as we part ways with old and newfound friends from the confer...
#8.6 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #7: Engaging in a Conference - Advice from Senior PhD Students
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we had the pleasure of interviewing three senior students from the Centre for Doctoral Training in Speech and Language Technologies, ...
#8.5 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #6: Engaging in a Conference - Expectations and Questions from Junior PhD Students
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Robbie Sutherland and Mattias Cross, two first-year PhD students from the University of Sheffiel...
#8.4 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #5: Oxford Wave Research - Speech Research in Business Setting
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
UK Speech annually extends its invitation to local businesses, offering them a platform to showcase their advancements in speech technologies. In this...
#8.3 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #4: Dr Jennifer Williams and Beatrice Pakenham-Walsh - Speech Research in an Interdisplinary and Collaborative Way
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apart from big speech research groups, there are also many other research groups of various sizes. In this episode, we interviewed Dr. Jennifer Willia...
#8.2 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #3: Dr Zoe Handley - Language Education with Speech Tech: Evolution, Collaboration and Position
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Apart from big speech research groups, there are also many other research groups of various sizes. In this episode, we interviewed Dr Zoe Handley, an...
#8.1 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #2: Dr Kate Knill and Dr Mengjie Qian - Automated Language Teaching and Assessment: Past, Present and Future
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The University of Cambridge has one of the biggest speech research groups in the UK. In this episode, we have Dr Kate Knill and her colleague Dr Mengj...
#8.0 SpeechPitch @ UK Speech 2023 - Episode #1: Dr Anton Ragni - Conference Preparation and What to Expect
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is the first in a special series of mini-episodes covering the UK Speech 2023 Conference. In preparation for the conference, we have ISCA...
#7 SpeechPitch: Roger K. Moore
02 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have a conversation with Roger K. Moore, Professor of Spoken Language Processing at the University of Sheffield. Prof. Moore has m...
#6 Speech Pitch: Pascale Fung
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we have Professor Pascale Fung with us. Pascale is the Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering at ...
#5 Speech Pitch: John Hansen
22 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are chatting with John Hansen, a Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is also the founder of the Center for Robust S...
#4 Speech Pitch: Shri Narayanan
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are chatting with Shri Narayanan, a Professor at the University of Southern California. Among many other things, Shri is a Fellow ...
#3 Speech Pitch: Nicholas Cummins
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we are chatting with Nicholas Cummins, a Lecturer in AI for speech analysis at King's College London. We talk about speech technologi...
#2 Speech Pitch: Odette Scharenborg
30 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we are chatting with Odette Scharenborg, an Associate Professor and Delft Technology Fellow. She is also a member of the ISCA board, w...
#1 Speech Pitch: Iona Gessinger
05 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode of Speech Pitch, ISCA-SAC's (Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association) new podcast. ...