Petra Wagner

Petra Wagner

petra.wagner@uni-bielefeld.de
Institution: Bielefeld University
Department: Faculty of Linguistics & Literary Studies, CITEC
Position: Professor of Phonetics
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/personen/petra-wagner/
Interaction does not take place in the void, and cannot be investigated in the void.

Speech-based interaction (HHI, HMI, HRI), speech synthesis, phonetics

Multimodality, hesitations, non-verbal communication; TTS evaluation, voice conversion; computational modeling, methods development, explainability

  • A comparison of discrete and continuous prominence perception methods in German (2025)

    Authors: Anna Bruggeman, Marcin Włodarczak, Petra Wagner

    Published at: Speech Communication (Volume: 168)
    DOI: 10.1016/j.specom.2024.103165

  • Speech Synthesis along Perceptual Voice Quality Dimensions (2025)

    Authors: Frederik Rautenberg, Michael Kuhlmann, Fritz Seebauer, Jana Wiechmann, Petra Wagner, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

    Published at: ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
    DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10888012

  • Predictability of Understanding in Explanatory Interactions Based on Multimodal Cues (2024)

    Authors: Olcay Türk, Stefan Lazarov, Yu Wang, Hendrik Buschmeier, Angela Grimminger, Petra Wagner

    Published at: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
    DOI: 10.1145/3678957.3685741

  • Towards a Computational Architecture for Co-Constructive Explainable Systems (2024)

    Authors: Meisam Booshehri, Hendrik Buschmeier, Philipp Cimiano, Stefan Kopp, Jaroslaw Kornowicz, Olesja Lammert, Marco Matarese, Dimitry Mindlin, Amelie Sophie Robrecht, Anna-Lisa Vollmer, Petra Wagner, Britta Wrede

    Published at: Proceedings - 2024 Workshop on Explainability Engineering, ExEn 2024
    DOI: 10.1145/3648505.3648509

  • Understanding “understanding”: Presenting a richly annotated multimodal corpus of dyadic interaction (2024)

    Authors: Leonie Schade, Nico Dallmann, Olcay Türk, Petra Wagner

    Published at: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH

  • Assessing the impact of contextual framing on subjective TTS quality (2024)

    Authors: Jens Edlund, Christina Tånnander, Sébastien Le Maguer, Petra Wagner

    Published at: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH
    DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-781

  • Cognitive Load Increases Spoken and Gestural Hesitation Frequency (2023)

    Authors: Simon Betz, Nataliya Bryhadyr, Olcay Türk, Petra Wagner

    Published at: Languages (Volume: 8)
    DOI: 10.3390/languages8010071

  • Investigating Speaker Embedding Disentanglement on Natural Read Speech (2023)

    Authors: Michael Kuhlmann, Adrian Meise, Fritz Seebauer, Petra Wagner, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

    Published at: Speech Communication - 15th ITG Conference
    DOI: 10.30420/456164023

  • On Feature Importance and Interpretability of Speaker Representations (2023)

    Authors: Frederik Rautenberg, Michael Kuhlmann, Jana Wiechmann, Fritz Seebauer, Petra Wagner, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach

    Published at: Speech Communication - 15th ITG Conference
    DOI: 10.30420/456164037

  • Effects of meter, genre and experience on pausing, lengthening and prosodic phrasing in German poetry reading (2023)

    Authors: Petra Wagner, Simon Betz

    Published at: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH (Volume: 2023-August)
    DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1443