Recent & Upcoming Talks

2023

Igbo and Yoruba English Vowel Spaces Compared

Presentation on quantiative differences in the vowel spaces of Igbo and Yoruba English.

07.14.2023 — 07.15.2023 Chemnitz, Germany

Sven Albrecht, Marina Ivanova, Adeiza Isiaka

Comparing Vowel Spaces across Three Circles: a quantitative corpus-based Approach

Presentation of the (non-)native varieties of English analzed as part of subproject D03 of the collaborative research ccenter Hybrid Societies

06.15.2023 — 06.17.2023 Stony Brook, New York

Sven Albrecht, Marina Ivanova, Josef Schmied

Linguistic Perspectives on Building a Neural TTS System for Teaching and Learning Settings

Presentation of the linguistic background of the neural text-to-speech system developed as part of subproject D03 of the collaborative research ccenter Hybrid Societies

05.15.2023 — 05.25.2023 Brno, Czech Republic; Klagenfurt, Austria; Padova, Italy; Ferrara, Italy; Modena, Italy

Sven Albrecht

Establishing Conversational Pedagogical Agents as Credible Knowledge Providers: the Case of Synthesized Italian English

This contribution investigates whether an artifical agent speaking a non-native variety of English improves learning outcomes.

03.15.2023 — 05.17.2023 TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

Sven Albrecht, Rewa Tamboli, Stefan Taubert, Felicia Meusel, Maximilian Eibl, Günter Daniel Rey, Josef Schmied

2022

Talking about news articles related to the Covid Pandemic on Twitter: Global Discourse and Intertextuality

Presentation on how people on Twitter talk about news articles relating to the Covid19 pandemic.

08.29.2022 — 09.02.2022 Mainz, Germanny

Sven Albrecht, Marina Ivanova

Towards a Vowel Formant Based Quality Metric for Text-to-Speech Systems: Measuring Monophthong Naturalness

Presentation of a linguistically motivated, vowel formant based quality metric for the text to speech system developed in our credible pedagogical agents project.

06.15.2022 — 06.17.2022 TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany

Sven Albrecht, Rewa Tamboli, Stefan Taubert, Maximilian Eibl, Günter Daniel Rey, Josef Schmied

Current research on the linguistic features of Chinese English

Summary and synthesis of previous research on Chinese English, proposing a systematization.

06.14.2022 University of Manchester, Harwood Room, Barnes Wallis Building

Computer agents with non-native English as acredible compromise between solidarity and professionality: university communication innational cultural accents

Overview of the current state of the project D03 Credible Conversational Pedagogical Agents.

05.28.2022 online, Madrid, Spain

mLearning for Palestine: Practical challenges in a project to “bridge educational and socio-political gaps” for university learning

Highlights from the TEFL-ePAL project, achievements and challenges.

05.27.2022 online, Madrid, Spain

Untying the Gordian Knot: Legally Compliant Sound Data Collection and Processing for TTS Systems in China

Comparison of legal frameworks relevant in a international, interdisciplinary research project with data collection in China.

04.06.2022 University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy

Stefanie Meyer, Sven Albrecht, Maximilian Eibl, Günter Daniel Rey, Josef Schmied, Rewa Tamboli, Stefan Taubert, Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl

2021

Vowel Plots with Praat and R

Tutorial style presentation on how to automatically create vowel plots from recordings using Praat and R.

10.12.2021 online, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany

Credibility Through Non-native Language Varieties in Conversational Pedagogical Agents

Conference presentation presenting the current state of my PhD project.

09.09.2021 Masaryk University, Faculty of Education, Brno, Czech Republic

Credibility Through Non-native Language Varieties in Conversational Pedagogical Agents

Conference presentation presenting the current state of my PhD project.

09.09.2021 online, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

2017

Corpus-Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches to Determiner Usage in Chinese Student Writing Testing the Fluctuation Hypothesis

Conference presentation presenting my results of a investigation of determiner usage by Chinese learners of English using corpus and cognitive methods to test the Fluctuation Hypothesis by Ionin, Ko, and Wexler (2004).

07.24.2017 — 07.28.2017 University of Birmingham