CV - Speech, Music and Hearing

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Sofia Strömbergsson
Speech Music and Hearing, CSC, KTH
Lindstedtsvägen 24
100 44 Stockholm
phone: +46-8-790 78 56
sostr@kth.se
http://www.speech.kth.se/~sostr/
Last updated: 2013-06-03
Research interests
Speech perception, self-voice perception, phonological impairment, speech acquisition, speech
therapy, speech synthesis, speech analysis, intelligibility, prosody in conversation.
Education
2007 PhD studies initiated
(Periods of parental leave in 2008 and 2010)
2007 MSc in Speech and Language Pathology, Lund University.
2000 MSc in Language Technology, Uppsala University.
Employment
2007 - present Speech, Music and Hearing, KTH, PhD student
2004 - 2006 Dept. of Linguistics, Lund University, Course administrator
2004 - 2007 The Swedish National Encyclopedia (NE), Consulting phonetician
June 2000 - 2003
Jan - May 2000
May - Dec 1999
Summer 1998
Nordisk Språkteknologi (NST), Language engineer (mostly within
text-to-speech)
Nordisk Språkteknologi (NST), MSc student
Dept. of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Research assistant
Dept. of Linguistics, Uppsala University, Research assistant

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Teaching
2013 Phonology (7,5 ECTS)
Lectures and shared course responsibility
Dept. of Linguistics,
Stockholm University
2012 and
2013
Phonology
One lecture within the course The architecture of
language 2 – Phonetics
Dept. of Linguistics,
Stockholm University
2012 Phonetic and phonological analysis (3 ECTS)
Lectures and course responsibility
Dept. of Linguistics,
Stockholm University
2008 -
present
Introduction to the voice + voice use
One lecture within the course Rhetoric - the art of
persuasion
Language and
Communication, KTH,
Stockholm
2006 Introduction to Language Technology (7,5 ECTS)
Lectures and course responsibility
Dept. of Linguistics,
Lund University
Supervision
2013 Master Thesis project Perception-based computerassisted
treatment of children with phonological
disorder – effects and experiences by SLP students
Ida Andersson and Catarina Lång
Division of Speech-
Language Pathology,
KI, Stockholm
Professional Activities
Organizational responsibilities for DiSS 2013 (The 6th Workshop on Disfluency in Spontaneous
Speech), KTH, 2013
Organizational responsibilities for Fonetik 2011 (The Swedish National Conference on
Phonetics), KTH, 2011
Programming Skills
Scripting languages (Perl, Tcl/Tk), Prolog/DCG, basic skills in Java
Natural Languages
Native speaker of Swedish. Fluent in English and Norwegian.

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Publications
2013
Strömbergsson, S. (2013). Children’s recognition of their own recorded voice: Influence of age
and phonological impairment. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 27(1), 33-45.
Strömbergsson, S., Hjalmarsson, A., Edlund, J., & House, D.(in press). Timing responses to
questions in dialogue. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2013. Lyon, France.
Strömbergsson, S., & Tånnander, C. (in press). Correlates to intelligibility in deviant child
speech – comparing clinical evaluations to audience response system-based evaluations
by untrained listeners. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2013. Lyon, France.
2012
Edlund, J., House, D., & Strömbergsson, S. (2012). Question types and some prosodic
correlates in 600 questions in the Spontal database of Swedish dialogues. In Ma, Q.,
Ding, H., & Hirst, D. (Eds.), In Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2012 (pp. 737-740).
Shanghai, China.
Edlund, J., Strömbergsson, S., & House, D. (2012). Telling questions from statements in spoken
dialogue systems. In Proceedings of SLTC 2012. Lund, Sweden.
Strömbergsson, S. (2012). Is that me? Self-voice identification in children with deviant speech.
In Proceedings of ICPLA 2012. Cork, Ireland.
Strömbergsson, S. (2012). Synthetic correction of deviant speech – children’s perception of
phonologically modified recordings of their own speech. In Proceedings of Interspeech
2012. Portland, Oregon, US.
Strömbergsson, S., Edlund, J., & House, D. (2012). A study of Swedish questions and their
prosodic characteristics. In In Proceedings of Workshop on Innovation and Applications in
Speech Technology (IAST). Dublin, Ireland.
Strömbergsson, S., Edlund, J., & House, D. (2012). Prosodic measurements and question types
in the Spontal corpus of Swedish dialogues. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2012 (pp.
839-842). Portland, Oregon, US.
Strömbergsson, S., Edlund, J., & House, D. (2012). Questions and reported speech in Swedish
dialogues. In Proceedings of Nordic Prosody XI. Tartu, Estonia.
2011
House, D., & Strömbergsson, S. (2011). Self-voice identification in children with phonological
impairment. In Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS
XVII (pp. 886-889). Hong Kong.
Strömbergsson, S. (2011). Children’s recognition of their own voice: influence of phonological
impairment. In Proceedings of Interspeech 2011 (pp. 2205-2208). Florence, Italy.
Strömbergsson, S. (2011). Corrective re-synthesis of deviant speech using unit selection. In
Sandford Pedersen, B., Nespore, G., & Skadina, I. (Eds.), NODALIDA 2011 Conference
Proceedings (pp. 214-217). Riga, Latvia.

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Strömbergsson, S. (2011). Segmental re-synthesis of child speech using unit selection.
In Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS XVII (pp.
1910-1913). Hong Kong.
2010
Edlund, J., Beskow, J., Elenius, K., Hellmer, K., Strömbergsson, S., & House, D. (2010).
Spontal: a Swedish spontaneous dialogue corpus of audio, video and motion capture. In
Calzolari, N., Choukri, K., Maegaard, B., Mariani, J., Odjik, J., Piperidis, S., Rosner, M., &
Tapias, D. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language
Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10) (pp. 2992 - 2995). Valetta, Malta.
2009
Strömbergsson, S. (2009). Self-voice recognition in 4 to 5-year-old children. In Proceedings of
Interspeech 2009. Brighton, UK.