Voices of technology
TUEsday march 22nd 20.00h
Stationskwartier
Join a sound experiment by singing, whispering, humming, laughing, crying or yelling. Artist and Young Master Christy Westhovens and scientist Frank Hopwood will have a conversation with each other and the audience. Why do Siri or Alexa not use these types of sounds, even though they are made with voices? And why does the Voice Technology industry not use these sounds more in general? Let’s discuss it on March 22nd.
Guests

Frank J. Hopwood
PhD candidate Rijksuniversiteit Groningen/Campus Fryslân
Frank Hopwood obtained his MA in linguistic sciences at the University of Groningen in 2020. Afterwards he was part of a team that developed a synthetic voice for a healthcare robot. In 2021 he obtained another MA in computer linguistics at the UGent and KU Leuven. Since February of 2022 he is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen/Campus Fryslân. Here he works on voice synthesis for under-resourced languages.