Dr W.A.J. Strik (Helmer)

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Topics: Speech Science, Phonetics, Acoustics, Language and Speech Technology (L&ST), Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), e-Learning, e-Health.
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Helmer Strik received his PhD in Physics, and is now Associate Professor in Speech Science and Technology at the Dept. of Linguistics of the Radboud University Nijmegen. He is initiator, co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) of the spin-off company NovoLanguage. His research activities address speech processing, automatic speech recognition (ASR), spoken dialogue systems, computer assisted language learning (CALL), e-Learning, and e-Health. He has published over 200 refereed papers. He has obtained numerous national and international research project grants (see http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/projects/). Recently, he coordinated two European Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) projects (DigLin, and GOBL). Currently he is coordinating the national research projects: ‘Idiomatic Second Language Acquisition’ (ISLA), 'CHAllenging Speech training In Neurological patients by interactive Gaming' (CHASING), 'An ASR-based reading tutor – Learning to read better through software that listens and gives feedback', and 'BLISS: Behaviour-based Language-Interactive Speaking Systems'. He is a partner in the recently started EU H2020-MSCA-ITN-2017 project TAPAS: Training network on Automatic Processing of PAthological Speech. He was 'Technical Program Chair' (TPC) of Interspeech 2007 in Antwerp, and co-organizer of international workshops. He is now chair of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology in Education (SLaTE, see http://hstrik.ruhosting.nl/slate/).

• Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour - Research Fellow

• PI group Language and Speech, Learning and Therapy