Petra Wagner
@petrasusannewagner.bsky.social
Speech scientist at Bielefeld University, citizen, singer
Some interests: prosody, laughter, pausing in speech, voice quality, multimodal interaction, TTS, explainable AI, phonetics, speech science and technology
Some interests: prosody, laughter, pausing in speech, voice quality, multimodal interaction, TTS, explainable AI, phonetics, speech science and technology
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Am I evil? Am I likeable?
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
November 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Am I evil? Am I likeable?
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
Need a 10 minutes break? Like Fantasy? Loath it? Take part in our study and help us by rating images of fictional characters here:
bixprag.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/publix/0aSWK...
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Here is a story about a AAAI paper that got 5 human reviews and 1 AI review. The AI generated review contained a page-long counterexample to a proof in the paper. The AI’s counter example contained hallucinated errors. How does one rebut an AI reviewer? www.linkedin.com/posts/omerbp...
#aaai26 | Omer Ben-Porat | 13 comments
#AAAI26
This year, in addition to five human reviewers, we also received an AI review.
The humans sort of liked the paper, so there's hope.
The AI, however, took a bolder approach: it confidently d...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Here is a story about a AAAI paper that got 5 human reviews and 1 AI review. The AI generated review contained a page-long counterexample to a proof in the paper. The AI’s counter example contained hallucinated errors. How does one rebut an AI reviewer? www.linkedin.com/posts/omerbp...
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Some #LLMs promise universal “speech-to-phoneme” transcription. At #P&P I presented first results on the special use-case of creative phonetic forms and discussed how well different LLMs perform on this task. Turns out: very poorly with horrendous error rates. home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025 #CRC1646
October 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Some #LLMs promise universal “speech-to-phoneme” transcription. At #P&P I presented first results on the special use-case of creative phonetic forms and discussed how well different LLMs perform on this task. Turns out: very poorly with horrendous error rates. home.uni-leipzig.de/pundp2025 #CRC1646
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Exchange between linguistic CRCs: We are happy about an interesting new collaboration on linguistic creativity and novel phonetic forms between Prof. Dr. Christine Mooshammer (PI of project C06) and project A02 from the CRC 1646 in Bielefeld! More infos can be found here […]
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fediscience.org
September 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Exchange between linguistic CRCs: We are happy about an interesting new collaboration on linguistic creativity and novel phonetic forms between Prof. Dr. Christine Mooshammer (PI of project C06) and project A02 from the CRC 1646 in Bielefeld! More infos can be found here […]
Research Gate asked me to confirm my authorship of the paper „Fundamentals: cleaning with ultrasound“ - I was tempted… #phonetics #articulation #multimodal
September 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Research Gate asked me to confirm my authorship of the paper „Fundamentals: cleaning with ultrasound“ - I was tempted… #phonetics #articulation #multimodal
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“Developmentally plausible pretraining, now also auf Deutsch: a BabyLM Dataset for German” — Today I had the pleasure to present our German BabyLM dataset together with the first author Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social to an interested and engaging audience at #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim.
September 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
“Developmentally plausible pretraining, now also auf Deutsch: a BabyLM Dataset for German” — Today I had the pleasure to present our German BabyLM dataset together with the first author Bastian Bunzeck @bbunzeck.bsky.social to an interested and engaging audience at #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim.
Our new paper in Journal of Voice is online: voice characteristics are particularly difficult to explain to speech therapists in training if they are acoustically intransparent: www.jvoice.org/article/S089...
September 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Our new paper in Journal of Voice is online: voice characteristics are particularly difficult to explain to speech therapists in training if they are acoustically intransparent: www.jvoice.org/article/S089...
A big thank you to the organizers of the Workshop on Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech 2015 in Lisbon (diss2025.inesc-id.pt?page_id=47) where Simon Betz and I had the honor to present a keynote on phonetic lengthening. #phonetics #disfluencies #TTS #explainableAI
Keynote Speakers – DISS 2025
diss2025.inesc-id.pt
September 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A big thank you to the organizers of the Workshop on Disfluencies in Spontaneous Speech 2015 in Lisbon (diss2025.inesc-id.pt?page_id=47) where Simon Betz and I had the honor to present a keynote on phonetic lengthening. #phonetics #disfluencies #TTS #explainableAI
#nyt write on the joy of being in #bielefeld, the German town nobody really thought existed, but which has an opera house, a diverse society, and great football. #arminia. (They strangely forgot to mention the #uni-bielefeld). Will we now be discovered? Colonialized? 😱
May 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
#nyt write on the joy of being in #bielefeld, the German town nobody really thought existed, but which has an opera house, a diverse society, and great football. #arminia. (They strangely forgot to mention the #uni-bielefeld). Will we now be discovered? Colonialized? 😱
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How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
April 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?
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The Royal Society is dead
A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to […]
A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to […]
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April 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The Royal Society is dead
A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to […]
A few months ago, Dorothy Bishop resigned her fellowship in the Royal Society in protest at Elon Musk's continuing fellowship. This was a highly principled stand. Eight weeks ago, Steven Curry wrote an open letter to the President of the Royal Society asking him to […]