Volker Dellwo
Scholar

Volker Dellwo

Google Scholar ID: HQlIBz8AAAAJ
University of Zurich
SpeechVoicePhoneticsPsychoacousticsForensics
Citations & Impact
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Citations
1,526
 
H-index
19
 
i10-index
47
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
50
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Completed multiple research projects, including:
  • - Forensic Phonetic Speaker Identification based on Temporal Evidence
  • - Speech rhythm and the Cocktail Party Effect
  • - Acoustic properties of voice in musical and theatrical speech
  • - Palatal obstruents in Italo- and Rhaeto-Romance
  • - Phonological typology of Italo-Romance dialects
  • - Morphology-phonetics interface in Campanian dialects
  • - Orthography and pronunciation in migrant children
  • - Development of the 'Voice Äpp' application
  • - Vowel and consonant quantity in North Italian dialects
Research Experience
  • Leads the Phonetics and Speech Signal Processing research group at UZH
  • Conducts diverse research projects including:
  • - Rhythmic accommodation in Grison and Zurich German dialect contact
  • - Dynamics of indexical information in speech for communication and speaker recognition
  • - Risks and opportunities of digital voice cloning ('Voice Theft')
  • - Between-speaker variability in Persian speech rhythm
  • - Role of temporal characteristics in infant-directed speech for maternal voice recognition
  • - Vocal accommodation in human-human and human-robot interaction
  • - Effects of nicotine craving on voice quality
  • - Dynamic formant variability in spontaneous speech
  • - Second language pronunciation acquisition (e.g., Ecuadorian learners of English)
  • - Speech processing deficits in aging and Alzheimer’s disease
  • - Phonetic features of urban multi-ethnic varieties in German-speaking Switzerland
  • - Segmental and suprasegmental description of Egyptian Arabic