Together, our team at the CIE Acoustics Lab brings to the table more than 40 years of research and development work in the field of speech communication (of humans and machines), public speaking, and the perceived charisma of a speaker. With this extensive background of experience and the our still burning curiosity, we are very much looking forward to hosting the next ProComm conference in 2025. Would you like some examples of our R&D activities? Then please take a look at the CIE Acoustics Lab subpage!

About me: I am a phonetician and recognized as an expert in the production and perception of speech prosody, with a particular focus on public speaking and speaker charisma. After completing my studies and earning my doctorate (summa cum laude) in phonetics and digital speech processing in 2006, I worked for three years at European universities in Aix-en-Provence and York. In 2009, I accepted a position as Professor (W1) for the analysis of spoken language at Kiel University, where I also led the Kiel Research Center for Voice and Emotion. In 2015, I became an Associate Professor of Communication and Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark and took over the management of the acoustics laboratory at the Centre for Industrial Electronics. A significant milestone in my career was the development of Acoustic Voice Profiling® technology in 2017 and the founding of the speech-technology company AllGoodSpeakers ApS in 2019, where I currently serve as CEO. In addition to my research work, I am the Secretary of the International Phonetic Association (IPA) and an Associate Editor for the journals Phonetica and the Journal of the International Phonetic Association.

About me: I am a postdoc fellow at the Centre for Industrial Electronics. I conducted my PhD at the GrEP-G Research Group at Universitat Pompeu Fabra on the training effects of virtual reality on public speaking performance of adolescents. The results showed positive effects of VR on the voice and that’s why we decided that creating our own app to train voices could be super useful and challenging. So, inmediately after my PhD I moved to Denmark with a Spin-Outs Denmark grant and began with the development of the project called VirtuVoce: The world’s (very) first voice gym, with the aim of launching a digital tool to help people master their voice and communication skills with the help of an app full of exercises and environments to rehearse oral speeches and reduce their public speaking anxiety. Doing research on oral skills and teaching people how to improve their oral performances are two of my big passions.

About me: I am a Research Assistant at the Centre for Industrial Electronics and I am all about successful communication. I hold a BA in Media and Communication from Goldsmiths University London, an MA in Cognition and Communication from Copenhagen University, as well as an Accredited Coaching diploma. I have been lead PI on two research projects funded by the Danish Sound Cluster assessing the cognitive benefits of audio/tactile vibroacoustic technology. Both projects used speech prosody and biosignal makers to measure how music and vibrotactile sound can improve wellbeing and reduce stress. A paper from this research was included in the conference proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) in Seoul, South Korea, where I presented my results. A second manuscript has been submitted to the MDPI Journal Sensors, special issue “Sensor-Based Approaches to Understanding Human Behavior”. In addition to research, I run my own cognitive coaching business. As a trained facilitator, I support clients using coaching methodology and open dialogue, to communicate back to them their individual needs, boundaries and goals, in support of their own personal development.

About me: I am a postdoc fellow at the Centre for Industrial Electronics, at the University of Southern Denmark in Sønderborg. I have recently completed my PhD (Cognitive Science of Language) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. During my time in academia, I have had the opportunity to participate as both a research assistant at the Oral Dynamics Lab (ODL; University of Toronto) under the supervisor of Pascal van Lieshout and Aravind Namasivayam and also had the opportunity to work as an assistant to the dialect coach, Jermone Butler (Jobu Productions). Both of these experiences sparked my current passion of speech variations and personality trait ascription. My current research examines various aspects of speech variation (voice quality, amplitude, and allophonic variants) and their effects on personality trait attribution. The results of my current research on this topic has provided novel results, and many potential future applications to a variety of domains including the professional realm (speech language pathology), the business realm (academic presentations; business meetings), and technological domains (AI speech training).