Newsletter – volume 5 – September 2018

Monica: ENRICH has just uploaded D8.6 Mid-term Report. Many thanks for all your inputs and feedback. HöRZ is also working on D5.1 Mid-term Evaluation, due 30 Sept.

Gerard: Publication accepted in a ACM Multimedia satellite workshop. Quite excited to run the first pilots this month with audiovisual OLSA. Recordings done and experiment design set for a loudness experiment (reality vs lab loudness perception and loudness perception with two different hearing aid fitting methods). Regarding the ENRICH video, Max recorded section 5 (Theme 3) scenes 5.1 and 5.3 and will record section 6 (Outcomes) scene 6.1 and 6.3 with Valerie.

Avashna: I will be presenting two posters at Interspeech 2018 in Hyderabad, India with proceedings papers for both in the same conference. I will also be attending the Machine Learning and Language Processing workshop at Google, Hyderabad and the Blizzard Challenge workshop at Microsoft, Hyderabad.

Valerie: Our paper (Hazan, V. L., Tuomainen, O., Kim, J., Davis, C., Sheffield, B., & Brungart, D. (2019) Clear speech adaptations in spontaneous speech produced by young and older adults) is now in press in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. I can send a copy of the authors manuscript on request.

Chen: 1) I started learning how to speak English when I was 20 (back then I was tutoring an American family Mandarin Chinese for the first time, and I had sort of acquired their accent). 2) I spent a night in a tent at the foot of Mt. Everest (5200m) last month (and I do not want to experience that again!).

Valerie (again…): 1) I was a volunteer at the London 2012 Olympic games (team leader, security). 2) I did an ocean skydive in Australia in my 50th year, without telling anyone in my family (but they’ve heard plenty about it since!). 3) I sing in a choir that performs national anthems at major international sports events (and contribute pronunciation tutorials called ‘Vowels with Val’)