Speaking Machines and Living Languages
Guest lecture on the intersection of speech technology, linguistics, and cultural preservation at the University of Warsaw's BREAKTHROUGHS conference.
Oct 17, 2025
🗣️ The Blizzard Challenge 2025: A voice for Bildts
Researchers gathered at Campus Fryslân to create synthetic voices for Bildts, demonstrating how AI can serve linguistic diversity.
Aug 28, 2025
Speech Synthesis Workshop 2025: It's a wrap!
The 13th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop concluded successfully.
Aug 24, 2025
Featured in Trouw: How AI Learns to Read Articles Aloud
Explaining the three-step journey from text to speech for Dutch national newspaper Trouw.
Jul 7, 2025
Teaching Machines to Speak Frisian: A PhD Success Story
A PhD success story.
Jun 19, 2025
Announcing the Blizzard Challenge 2025 for Bildts Speech Synthesis
Hosting a special session at SSW13 focused on speech synthesis for the Bildts language of Fryslân.
Jan 16, 2025
Meta Learning Text-to-Speech Synthesis in over 7000 Languages
We developed a meta-learning approach for text-to-speech synthesis that works across 7000+ languages, especially benefiting under-resourced and endangered languages.
Jun 1, 2024
SarcasticSpeech: Speech Synthesis for Sarcasm in Low-Resource Scenarios
We present a first attempt at sarcastic speech synthesis using transfer learning to overcome the challenge of limited sarcastic speech data.
Aug 1, 2023
Strategies in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Speech Synthesis: Phone Mapping, Features Input, and Source Language Selection
A comparative study of different transfer learning strategies for text-to-speech synthesis in low-resource languages.
Jun 21, 2023
The Effects of Input Type and Pronunciation Dictionary Usage in Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Text-to-Speech
A study of input types and pronunciation dictionary alternatives for text-to-speech in low-resource languages, with a focus on West Frisian.
Jun 1, 2023