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

  • From co-speech actions to co-speech gestures? Effects of visibility and information structure on cross-modal synchronization (2025)

    Authors: Petra Wagner

    Published at: Language and Cognition (Volume: 17)
    DOI: 10.1017/langcog.2025.10041

  • 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

  • Laughter use by virtual agents increases task success (2025)

    Authors: Bogdan Ludusan, Petra Wagner

    Published at: Dialogue and Discourse (Volume: 16)
    DOI: 10.5210/dad.2025.302

  • Challenges and Limits in Explaining and Acoustic Modeling of Voice Characteristics (2025)

    Authors: Jana Wiechmann, Petra Wagner

    Published at: Journal of Voice
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2025.07.036

  • Towards Frame-level Quality Predictions of Synthetic Speech (2025)

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

    Published at: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech
    DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2190

  • 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

  • Synthesizing speech with selected perceptual voice qualities - A case study with creaky voice (2025)

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

    Published at: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association Interspeech
    DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1443

  • 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

  • An acoustic-prosodic analysis of laughter types (2024)

    Authors: Bogdan Ludusan, Marin Schröer, Petra Wagner

    Published at: Proceedings of the International Conference on Speech Prosody
    DOI: 10.21437/SpeechProsody.2024-122