Matt Coler ☕️
Matt Coler

Associate Professor of Speech Technology

University of Groningen
Faculty Campus Fryslân

About Me

I am head of the Technology, Governance and Innovation department and Associate Professor of Speech Technology, at Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen, where I also direct the MSc Speech Technology program. I earned my PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam in 2010 and previously led cognitive systems at an AI startup specializing in acoustic sensors. I served as Vice Chair of the LITHME COST Action and currently serve on the ISCA Ethics Committee and the ISCA SynSIG Board.

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Interests
  • Speech Technology
  • Language Diversity
  • Auditory perception
  • Ethics in AI
Education

  • PhD Linguistics

    Free University Amsterdam

  • MA Linguistics (cum laude)

    Free University Amsterdam

  • Graduate Studies

    New York University

  • BA Philosophy & Chinese

    University of Massachusetts

📚 My Research

My research centers on the ethical development of speech technology, with particular focus on under-resourced languages and small data scenarios. As Ethics Chair for INTERSPEECH 2025 and member of the ISCA Ethics Committee and ISCA SynSIG Board, I advocate for responsible AI development that prioritizes linguistic diversity and community benefit over technological advancement alone.

I explore how speech technologies can be developed ethically to serve marginalized language communities, ensuring that AI systems amplify linguistic diversity. I welcome collaboration opportunities at the intersection of AI ethics, speech technology, and social justice. 🔊

Featured Publications
Intra-modal Relation and Emotional Incongruity Learning using Graph Attention Networks for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Enhancing Standard and Dialectal Frisian ASR: Multilingual Fine-tuning and Language Identification for Improved Low-resource Performance
AMuSeD: An Attentive Deep Neural Network for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Incorporating Bi-modal Data Augmentation
Meta Learning Text-to-Speech Synthesis in over 7000 Languages
Recent Publications
Devraj Raghuvanshi, Xiyuan Gao, Zhu Li, Shubhi Bansal, Matt Coler, Nagendra Kumar, Shekhar Nayak (2025). Intra-modal Relation and Emotional Incongruity Learning using Graph Attention Networks for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection. In ICASSP 2025.
Reihaneh Amooie, Wietse De Vries, Yun Hao, Jelske Dijkstra, Matt Coler, Martijn Wieling (2025). Enhancing Standard and Dialectal Frisian ASR: Multilingual Fine-tuning and Language Identification for Improved Low-resource Performance. ICASSP 2025.
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Reihaneh Amooie, Wietse De Vries, Yun Hao, Jelske Dijkstra, Matt Coler, Martijn Wieling (2025). Evaluating Standard and Dialectal Frisian ASR: Multilingual Fine-tuning and Language Identification for Improved Low-resource Performance. arXiv.
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Gao, Xiyuan, Bansal, Shubhi, Gowda, Kushaan, Li, Zhu, Nayak, Shekhar, Kumar, Nagendra, Matt Coler (2024). AMuSeD: An Attentive Deep Neural Network for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection Incorporating Bi-modal Data Augmentation. arXiv.
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Marita K Everhardt, Anastasios Sarampalis, Matt Coler, Deniz Bașkent, Wander Lowie (2024). Lexical Stress Identification in Cochlear Implant-Simulated Speech by Non-Native Listeners. Lang. Speech.
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