My research interests involve speech synthesis with a focus on signal processing and speech waveform analysis. More precisely, my recent work focused on the classification of speech segments in terms of quality and suitability to serve as a basis for synthesis and the automatic generation of speech corpora for synthesis. On one hand this work includes in-depth analysis of signal properties such as fundamental frequency, pitch marks and voicing properties. On the other hand extensive tools are required to build voices in a fully automatic way with minimal manual intervention.

In the beginning of my phd time I was engaged in natural language processing for a short time. Currently I also work on a server application for speech recognition within the framework of the CTI project POSPER: Polyglot Speech Recognizer.

Since May 2007 I have been working as a research assistant at the speech processing group at ETH Zürich, Switzerland.

From February 2004 to August 2004 I studied at the Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand. In the academic year that followed as well as in the academic year 2006/07 I worked as a teaching assistant for the graduate lecture operating systems.