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Thanks to Daan van Esch (Google) for coming to visit the Phonetics Lab, going out to lunch with us, and giving a guest lecture this Thursday!  Daan van Esch giving a guest lecture for Intro to Linguistics (LIN 1)  Daan van Esch giving a guest lecture for Intro to Linguistics (LIN 1)  Daan van Esch showing postdoc Michelle Cohn speech synthesized with Tacotron Great job to Tyler Kline and Aleese Block who presented at the California Meeting on Psycholinguistics (CAMP3) this weekend at UC Santa Cruz!
 Tyler Kline presenting  Aleese Block presenting via handout during the power outage Welcome to new RAs this Fall 2019: Mia Fagan, Riley Stray, Bryce Jacobs, & Julian Rambob!  Fall 2019 Lab Meeting (L-> R from back to front): Riley Stray, Bryce Jacobs, Bruno Ferenc Segedin, Aleese Block, Tyler Kline, Julian Rambob, Mia Fagan, Taylor Kim, Kris Predeck, Marlene Andrade, Melina Sarian, Jazmina Chavez, Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn While at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden) this September, Michelle Cohn met up with Dr. Jonas Beskow, co-founder of Furhat Robotics, and Ph.D. student Patrik Jonell. Together with Georgia Zellou, they are conducting a study to test the role of embodiment and gender in human's voice-AI interaction with three platforms: Amazon Echo, Nao, and Furhat.  Michelle Cohn, Jonas Beskow, & Patrik Jonell at the KTH Studio Georgia Zellou, Michelle Cohn, & Bruno Ferenc Segedin presented 4 papers at Interspeech in Graz, Austria.  View of Interspeech coffee break  Georgia Zellou presenting  Michelle Cohn presenting  Michelle Cohn, Georgia Zellou, & Bruno Ferenc Segedin See below for links for the papers:
The Phonetics Lab in the Department of Linguistics at UC Davis is recruiting applications for undergraduate research assistant (RAs) positions for Fall 2019- Winter 2020 (with possibility of extension). RAs are expected to work approximately 6-8 hours a week in the lab and will receive 2 units of LIN 199 credit per quarter (4 units count as upper division elective toward LIN major).
RAs will
Application deadline: September 21, 2019 To apply, email the following to Dr. Michelle Cohn (mdcohn@ucdavis.edu)
We were pleased to present three projects from the Phon lab at the 2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), held in Melbourne, Australia.   Special session organized by Alan Yu & Georgia Zellou   Project on regional dialectal variation in CA Please see the links for the conference papers:
Congrats to Michelle Cohn for receiving a two year NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with Dr. Georgia Zellou (PI: UC Davis Phonetics Lab, Dept. of Linguistics), Dr. Zhou Yu (PI: UC Davis Language and Multimodal Interaction Lab, Dept. of Computer Science) and Dr. Katharine Graf Estes (PI: UC Davis Language Learning Lab, Dept. of Psychology). Click here to see the official NSF posting  Dr. Georgia Zellou and Dr. Michelle Cohn gave invited talks at the June 2019 Voice User Interface (VUI) Summit at the Amazon headquarters.
 Michelle Cohn (left) and Georgia Zellou (right) at the Amazon headquarters  Dr. Georgia Zellou  Bruno Ferenc Segedin and Dr. Georgia Zellou Congratulations to Dr. Georgia Zellou, who received the 2019 UC Davis Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research!
And congratulations to senior undergraduate researcher Bruno Ferenc Segedin, who received Honorable Mention for the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research! https://urc.ucdavis.edu/2019-CAE |
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