TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear all,
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is back after a summer break. We have the great pleasure of presenting a season of interesting talks with varied topics related to speech. You are warmly welcome to join the events via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Our season launches with a special guest talk on September 16, 2026, at 16:00–17:00 EEST (Helsinki, UCT+3):
Listener training on L2 accents for non-academic university staff
Alice Henderson, Grenoble University
Presentations coming up later this season:
* • Oct 20, at 11:00–12:00 Signe Tonér (Stockholm University): Dual language learners in vulnerable and segregated areas
* • Nov 20, at 12:00–13:00 Ida-Lotta Myllylä (University of Helsinki): Prosody in Finnish speakers on the autism spectrum: acoustic, multimodal, and interactional perspectives
* • Dec 8, at 14:00–15:00 Kerstin Fischer (University of Southern Denmark): Robots that speak
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P). The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Information regarding upcoming webinars are available at https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Looking forward to seeing you online,
Riikka Ullakonoja and Elina Vasu
Elina Vasu (formerly Tergujeff)
PhD, University Lecturer in English Linguistics
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Languages Unit
Tampere University
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TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear colleagues,
You are warmly welcome to attend the season launch of the Nordic Speech Research Forum. The webinar is open to everyone and can be accessed through our website www.jyu.fi/nsrf<http://www.jyu.fi/nsrf> which lists all upcoming events on this webinar series. Simply click on the event to join!
Friday, September 12th at 13:00–14:00 Helsinki time (EEST, UCT+3)
L2 Accent in Icelandic: Folk Ideas and Attitudes
Stefanie Bade, University of Iceland
The season is full of interesting webinars with a wide range of topics within speech research. Please find the poster attached and feel free to spread the word.
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P; to join, see https://groups.io/g/nnl2p) The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Best regards,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Vasu
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Dear all,
This is both and invitation and a request.
This year marks 75 years since Gunnar Fant founded TMH as Taltransmissionslaboratoriet in 1951. We're celebrating that with an event on the afternoon and evening of August 17. Our ambition is to welcome everyone with a connection to TMH, but in order to prepare (and there is _some_ kind of upper limit of number of participants as well), we would appreciate if anyone who wishes to participate could register, preferably as soon as possible): https://www.sprakbanken.speech.kth.se/tmh75/jubilee/register.html
In addition, we're hoping that those of you who have memories, materials, congratulations to share would do so. There is a form where you can upload everything from written memories to video messages, old audio recordings and other materials, to simple congratulations: https://www.sprakbanken.speech.kth.se/tmh75/contribute/submit.html
Naturally, you can also just contact us directly: me, for example at edlund(a)speech.kth.se
Hope to see many of you on August 17th!
Jens
PS: you should also note that Nordic Prosody takes place at KTH the following days: August 18-20. Registration opens shortly - see https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/
Dear colleagues and students,
We are please to invite you to participate in the half-day workshop Stable perception of spectral information across contexts: From normalization to adaptive category representations<https://www.su.se/english/divisions/centre-for-research-on-bilingualism/abo…>, taking place on the morning of June 11th, 2026, in Stockholm, Sweden.
The workshop is open to all and free of charge. It serves as a pre-conference workshop to NLS2026. The conference has recently extended its abstract submission deadline to March 2, 2026. We warmly encourage you to consider submitting your work.
About the workshop
This workshop brings together researchers from phonetics, cognitive science, neuroscience, and speech technology to explore how listeners achieve stable speech perception despite large differences between talkers and contexts. It focuses on low-level auditory mechanisms involved in formant and spectral normalization, and how these rapid processes interact with higher-level representations of linguistic categories and contexts. Through invited talks and a focused discussion, we aim to connect insights from behavioral studies, neural data, computational modeling, and machine recognition to address open questions about normalization and adaptation in speech perception.
Invited speakers
Kasia Hitczenko (University of Delaware, USA)
Ediz Sohoglu (University of Sussex, UK)
Ondrej Šuch (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
Santiago Barreda (University of California, Davis, USA)
T Florian Jaeger (University of Rochester, USA)
We would be very grateful if you could circulate this announcement within your networks. We look forward to welcoming you to Stockholm in June.
Best wishes,
Anna Persson
anna.persson(a)su.se
Dear all,
First of all, a big thank you to everyone who has registered for FONETIK 2025 and/or contributed a submission! We're currently putting together an exciting conference program and proceedings volume, and we’re very much looking forward to seeing everything come to life in just a few weeks.
A quick update:
It is still possible to register for the conference (though submissions are now closed). However, as of today, registration for the conference dinner (Day 2, Thursday) is closed.
We faced some challenges securing a venue for the dinner. Initially, it seemed that our preferred choice – PM & Vänner (yes, the one with the Michelin star!) – was unavailable. But thanks to a slightly lower-than-expected number of participants (which we now view as an opportunity for a cozier yet equally dynamic event), we reached out to the restaurant again with a revised headcount. Good news: it looks like we’ll be able to hold the dinner there after all!
Because of this, we can’t accommodate too many more attendees for the dinner. Therefore, if you register from today onward, you will be placed on a waiting list for the dinner. There’s still a chance we can fit you in, and we’ll contact you directly if a spot becomes available—but no guarantees.
That said, registration still includes access to the following social events:
* Welcome reception with buffet, held at the beautiful Teleborgs Slott – a castle located right on campus! (https://teleborgsslott.com/)
* Lunch on Day 2
If you're still considering joining us, don't wait too long—we'd love to see you there!
Warm regards,
Gilbert, Federica, Nate
TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear all,
Spring season’s final Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Tue, May 12th at 14:00 - 15:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). You are warmly welcome to join the event via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Phonetic learning of non-native speech features: Evidence from behavioral and brain activity experiments
Piia Astikainen, University of Jyväskylä
News:
* Zoom had wider problems on the day of our previous webinar. We were able to hear Míša Hejná’s presentation “The phonetic construction of good and evil from a whole-larynx perspective” but could only discuss via chat. Some had problems accessing Zoom. If you missed the presentation, please find the materials on our website.
* The Nordic Speech Research Forum webinars continue in the autumn. Season start is on Sept 16th at 16:00–17:00 (Helsinki/EEST). We have the pleasure to welcome a special guest: Professor Alice Henderson from Grenoble University will give a presentation titled “Listener training on L2 accents for non-academic university staff”.
* Who would you like to hear present their research? You can suggest speakers at https://forms.office.com/e/4DjYzpbxVp.
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P). The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Best regards,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Vasu
Elina Vasu (formerly Tergujeff)
PhD, University Lecturer in English Linguistics
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Languages Unit
Tampere University
*** Nordic Prosody XIV · 18–20 August 2026 · Stockholm ***
General information
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All deadlines are 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Website: npxiv.nordicprosody.org
Place: Campus, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Hosts: Dept. of Speech, Music and Hearing (TMH), KTH
Date: 18–20 August 2026 (lunch to lunch)
Abstract submission: 21 May 2026
Notification of acceptance: 5 June 2026
Registration deadline: 17 July 2026 (at least one author per accepted contribution)
Registration fee: 100 EUR (students) / 200 EUR (non-students). ISCA members pay EUR 180 and 90, respectively.
Full paper submission (optional): November 2026
Templates: https://npxiv.nordicprosody.org/templates/
Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=np14
Scope
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We invite submissions for papers on all aspects of prosodic research concerning Nordic languages and languages spoken around the Baltic Sea. We welcome papers on both phonetic and phonological analyses of prosody, including but not limited to: perception and production of prosody, rhythm and intonation, prosody in speech synthesis and speech recognition, the semantics and pragmatics of prosody, the acquisition of prosody, and cross-linguistic comparisons of prosody.
Invited speakers
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** Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University **
Julia Hirschberg is Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University, where she served as Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2012 to 2018. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1985 and spent the following eighteen years at Bell Laboratories and AT&T Labs Research, where she worked on prosody for text-to-speech synthesis and created the Human-Computer Interface Research Department. She joined Columbia in 2002. Her research spans prosody, spoken dialogue systems, and the automatic detection of emotion, deception and charisma in speech. She served as President of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) from 2005 to 2007 and is a fellow of AAAI, ISCA, ACL, ACM and IEEE, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and holds honorary doctorates from KTH Stockholm (2007) and Tilburg University (2018). She received the IEEE James L. Flanagan Speech and Audio Processing Award and the ISCA Medal for Scientific Achievement, both in 2011.
** Tomas Riad, Stockholm University **
Tomas Riad is Professor of Nordic Languages at Stockholm University and a member of the Swedish Academy. Born in Uppsala in 1959, he spent his early childhood in Egypt before returning to Sweden. He completed his doctorate at Stockholm University in 1992 with a dissertation on prosodic change across the Germanic languages, subsequently held a position at Stanford, and has been a guest researcher at universities in Vilnius, Paris and Berlin. His research covers phonology, prosody, verse metrics, historical linguistics and morphology. He is among the foremost authorities on Scandinavian tone accent: its origins, its typological variation across dialects, and its role in regulating Swedish morphology. His monograph The Phonology of Swedish (Oxford University Press, 2014) remains the definitive account of the sound structure of the language. He has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 2011.
Participation
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The conference will be held in person only. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and present at the conference venue.
Submissions
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Abstracts may be up to two pages long and must follow the templates that are available on the conference website's submissions page.
Proceedings
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There will be an opportunity to submit a full paper in the conference proceedings volume after the conference. Since 2022, full papers are published with open access (in 2022 with Gruyter/Sciendo). Further information will be provided on the website.
Contact
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npxiv(a)nordicprosody.org
Dea all,
This is a friendly reminder that the deadline for sending us your contribution as a paper concerning the anual meeting of researchers in phonetics Fonetik 2026 is approaching!
The deadline is 3rd of May.
And please add your final registration.
Check out the details on the webpage:
https://konferens.ht.lu.se/fonetik2026
We are looking foreward to seeing you in Lund!
For the team in Lund,
Mechtild
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Mechtild Tronnier, Ph. D.
Senior lecturer, Phonetics
Dept of Linguistics and Phonetics
Centre for Languages and Literature
Lund University
P.O. Box 201
SE-221 00 Lund
Sweden
phone: +46-46-222 8440
TUNI Luottamuksellinen - Confidential (3Y)
Dear all,
The next Nordic Speech Research Forum webinar takes place on Fri, April 17th at 12:00 - 13:00 (Helsinki/Eastern European Summer Time EEST; UCT+3). You are warmly welcome to join the event via our website https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
The phonetic construction of good and evil from a whole-larynx perspective
Míša Hejná, Aarhus University
The Nordic Speech Research Forum is organized by the Speech and Speech Research Special Interest Group of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) and the Nordic Network for L2 Pronunciation (NNL2P). The current coordinators are Riikka Ullakonoja (University of Jyväskylä) and Elina Vasu (Tampere University).
Information regarding upcoming webinars are available at https://www.jyu.fi/nsrf.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Riikka Ullakonoja & Elina Vasu
Elina Vasu (formerly Tergujeff)
PhD, University Lecturer in English Linguistics
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences
Languages Unit
Tampere University
