CONVERGENCE Doctoral Research Kalle Lahtinen took part in the 37th Finnic Phonetics Symposium (Fonetiikan päivät) hosted by the Phonetics and Learning, Age & Bilingualism laboratory at University of Turku. This was the second time Kalle participated in the conference.
The Finnic Phonetics Symposium is a conference series aiming to provide a forum for scientists and students of phonetics and speech technology to present and discuss recent research and development in spoken language communication. The symposium offers oral and poster presentations from a range of phonetics-related topics such as spoken language, voice research, speech therapy and speech technology.
Kalle gave a presentation about the first achievements in his doctoral studies, accomplished together with Kalle’s supervisors Liisa Mustanoja and Okko Räsänen. The presentation introduced the first affective speech corpus based on spontaneous Finnish speech, giving insight into the methodologies used to sample, annotate and analyze large-scale unannotated and unscripted speech data in the context of affective language. The introduced corpus will be made public along with two (submitted) publications covering the work in detail. The corpus works as a foundation for achieving the next research goals for Kalle’s doctoral thesis.