Speech Pitch

Speech Pitch

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Speech Pitch episodes

  • #19.3 Speech science Festival 2025 - Nada Gohider with Mohamed and Jasmina Brig talking about Research and SSF Hackathon

    Live from the Speech Science Festival! 🎤 We sat down with the University of Waterloo’s Nada Gohider and her wonderful children to get an inside look at this year's festivities. From hands-on events to the science of sound, they’re sharing their favorite moments and the unique energy that makes this festival a must-attend for families and researchers alike.


    Host: Pascal Hecker

    Post-Production: Pascal Hecker

    9 min
  • #19.2 Speech Science Festival 2026 - Demo of Song Composer robot for Dementia people with Paul Raingeard de la Blétière

    Your memories, composed. 🎹 Paul Raingeard de la Blétière is bridging the gap between technology and nostalgia. This demo showcases his innovative robot that listens to life stories and transforms them into fully-realized songs. From chosen instruments to lyric-matching memories, it’s a personalized symphony for the soul, specifically crafted for the dementia community.


    Host: Janice Huang

    Post-Production: Wei Xue, Pascal Hecker

    11 min
  • #19.1 Speech Science Festival 2025 - Science slam

    We introduce three innovators pushing the boundaries of speech tech in a fast-paced "Science Slam" format.

    • Aruna Srivastava (Univ. of Washington/Coal Labs): How movie clips can help you master any accent.

    • Jashu (Groningen University): The journey from China to the Netherlands to master the art of Singing Voice Synthesis.

    • Randy (TU Delft): Protecting your identity through adversarial attacks against unauthorized voice cloning. Three voices, three breakthroughs, one festival.


      Host: Pascal Hecker

      Post-Production: Paige Tuttösi, Pascal Hecker

    13 min
  • #19.0 Welcome to Speech Science festival with Ingo Siegert

    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 the stage for an incredible gathering of researchers, linguists, and tech innovators.


    Host: Ingo Siegert

    Post-Production: Pascal Hecker

    1 min
  • #18.12 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Roger Moore

    Roger Moore Professor of Spoken Language Processing who received the ISCA Medal for his contributions to spoken language processing join Speech Pitch podcast one more time having a fun and refreshing discussion with us.


    Host: Paige Tuttösí

    Post-production: Snigdha Banik

    19 min
  • #18.10 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Louis ten Bosch

    Meet Louis ten Bosch, Senior Researcher Radboud University and Technical committee lead in Interspeech 2025, who shares his background and giving us insights on Evaluating the Usefulness of Non-Diagnostic Speech Data for Developing Parkinson's Disease Classifiers . A paper that he co-authored with TY Zhong, E Janse, C Tejedor-Garcia, M Larson.


    Host: Spyretta Leivaditi

    Post-production: Pascal Hecker, Spyretta Leivaditi

    15 min
  • #18.8 Interspeech 2025 Impressions - Xiyuan Gao

    Meet Xiyuan Gao, PhD candidate in University of Groningen campus Fryslan, and focuses on pragmatic language understanding in Human-Machine-Interaction (HMI), with an emphasis on how multimodal cues.


    Host: Spyretta Leivaditi

    Post-production: Pascal Hecker

    8 min

About Speech Pitch

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Speech Pitch is ISCA-SAC's (Student Advisory Committee of the International Speech Communication Association) new podcast! Throughout the episodes, we will interview different guests, mostly from the speech community, in an informal setting. We want to get to know their work, their stories and their ideas for the future.