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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