| 8-1 | Sofia Strömbergsson,  'The /k/s, the /t/s, and the in-betweens. Novel approaches to examining the perceptual consequences of misarticulated speech´
 Email address: sofia.strombergsson@ki.se  Sofia Strömbergsson has completed her PhD thesis entitled 'The /k/s, the /t/s, and the   in-betweens. Novel approaches to examining the perceptual consequences of misarticulated   speech' at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. It was supervised by   Professor David House. Link to the document:  http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:705409/FULLTEXT01.pdf 
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| 8-2 | Mohamad Hasan, Bahari, 'Automatic Speaker Characterization Automatic Identification of Gender, Age, Language and Accent from Speech Signals
 Mohamad Hasan, Bahari has completed his PhD thesis entitled 'Automatic Speaker   Characterization Automatic Identification of Gender, Age, Language and Accent from Speech   Signals' at KU Leuven. It was supervised by Hugo Van hamme. Link to the document:  http://theses.eurasip.org/theses/558/automatic-speaker-characterization-identification/download/ 
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| 8-3 | Bing Jiang, 'Using Deep Neural Network for Spoken Language identification'
 Bing Jiang has completed his PhD thesis entitled 'Using Deep Neural Network for Spoken   Language identification' at University of Science and Technology of China. It was   supervised by Pro. Li-Rong Dai. 
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| 8-4 | Jan-Niklas Antons, 'Neural Correlates of Quality Perception for Complex Speech Signals'
 Email address: jan-niklas.antons@tu-berlin.de  Jan-Niklas Antons has completed his PhD thesis entitled 'Neural Correlates of Quality   Perception for Complex Speech Signals' at Technische Universität Berlin. It was   supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Möller. Link to the document:  http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/3319155202/ 
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| 8-5 | José David Lopes, 'Lexical Entrainment in Spoken Dialog Systems'
 José David Lopes has completed his PhD thesis entitled 'Lexical Entrainment in Spoken   Dialog Systems' at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. It was supervised   by Isabel Trancoso, Maxine Eskenazi. Link to the document:  http://www.inesc-id.pt/pt/indicadores/Ficheiros/5034.pdf 
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| 8-6 | George P. Kafentzis, 'Adaptive sinusoidal models for speech with applications in speech modifications and audio analysis'
 Email address: gkafen@gmail.com  George P. Kafentzis has completed his PhD thesis entitled 'Adaptive sinusoidal models for   speech with applications in speech modifications and audio analysis' at University of   Crete and University of Rennes 1. It was supervised by Yannis Stylianou and Olivier   Boeffard. Link to the document: https://www.csd.uoc.gr/~kafentz/PhD_Thesis_Final.pdf 
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| 8-7 | Xingyu, Na, ' Personalization of HMM-based Speech Synthesis'.
 Email address: asr.naxingyu@gmail.com  Xingyu, Na has completed his PhD thesis entitled 'Personalization of HMM-based Speech   Synthesis' at Beijing Institute of Technology. It was supervised by Jingming Kuang. Link   to the document: http://it.is.a.chinese.thesis  
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| 8-8 | Tuomo Raitio, 'Voice source modelling techniques for statistical parametric speech synthesis'
 Tuomo Raitio, 'Voice source modelling techniques for statistical parametric speech synthesis'  Email address: tuomo.raitio@aalto.fi  Tuomo Raitio has comleted his PhD thesis entitled 'Voice source modelling techniques for statistical parametric speech synthesis? at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. It was supervised by Professor Paavo Alku.  Link to the document: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/15584  
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| 8-9 | Bart Penning de Vries, 'Computerised Speaking Practice: The Role of Automatic Corrective Feedback in Learning L2 Grammar´
 Bart Penning de Vries has completed his PhD thesis entitled  'Computerised Speaking Practice: The Role of Automatic Corrective  Feedback in Learning L2 Grammar´ at the Centre of Language and Speech  Technology (CLST) of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Promotor - Prof. Dr. R.W.N.M. van Hout  Copromotors - Dr. C. Cucchiarini, Dr. H. Strik 
http://www.ru.nl/english/education/masters/historical-studies/?ActLbl=pagina&ActItmIdt=996617  
Link to the document: http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/141390/141390.pdf 
Email address: bardtpdv@gmail.com 
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| 8-10 | Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 'Towards Integrated Acoustic Models for Speech Synthesis'
 Prasanna Kumar Muthukumar, 'Towards Integrated Acoustic Models for Speech Synthesis', 
CMU-LTI-15-019 
Advisor; Alan W. Black 
Language Technologies Institute, 
School of Computer Science, 
Carnegie Mellon University, 
5000 Forbes Avenue, 
Pittsburgh, PA 15213. 
 Thesis text can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pmuthuku/publications/thesis/Prasanna_thesis.pdf 
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| 8-11 | Stephen Bodnar,'Affective L2 learning experiences and ideal L2 selves in spoken CALL practice'
 Stephen Bodnar has completed his PhD thesis entitled  'Affective L2 learning experiences and ideal L2 selves in spoken CALL practice'  at the Centre of Language and Speech Technology (CLST) of the Radboud University   Nijmegen, the Netherlands.  Promotor - Prof. Dr. R.W.N.M. van Hout  Copromotors - Dr. C. Cucchiarini, Dr. H. Strik
  http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/157803
   Links to the document: http://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/157803/157803.pdf?sequence=1 http://www.lotpublications.nl/Documents/428_fulltext.pdf 
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| 8-12 | Andreas Windmann, 'Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing'
 Name: Andreas Windmann  Email: windmannandreas@gmail.com Gender: male  Thesis title: Optimization-based modeling of suprasegmental speech timing  Supervisor: Petra Wagner  University: Bielefeld University  URL: https://pub.uni-bielefeld.de/publication/2906598
 
    
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| 8-13 | Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach, 'Modeling Engagement in Multi-Party Conversations'
 
Name: Catharine Oertel Genannt Bierbach  
 
Title: Modeling Engagement in Multi-Party Conversations (2017) 
Gender: female 
University: KTH 
Supervizor: Prof. Joakim Gustafson 
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| 8-14 | Emma Jokinen, 'Techniques for speech intelligibility enhancement in mobile telephony'
   
Emma Jokinen, 'Techniques for speech intelligibility enhancement in mobile telephony'
Email address: emma.jokinen@aalto.fi
Emma Jokinen has completed her PhD thesis entitled 'Techniques for speech intelligibility enhancement in mobile telephony' at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. It was supervised by Academy Professor Paavo Alku.
Link to the document:
https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/28741
 
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| 8-15 | Philipp Aichinger, 'Diplophonic Voice - Definitions, models, and detection'
 Subject: Philipp Aichinger, 'Diplophonic Voice - Definitions, models, and detection' 
Body of the announcement: 
Email address: philipp.aichinger@meduniwien.ac.at  Philipp Aichinger has completed his PhD thesis entitled 'Diplophonic Voice - Definitions, Models, and Detection', which was conducted at the Medical University of Vienna and the Graz University of Technology, Austria. Examiners were Gernot Kubin, Jean Schoentgen, and Berit Schneider-Stickler. Link to the document: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271441725_Diplophonic_Voice_-_Definitions_models_and_detection 
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| 8-16 | Hardik B. Sailor,'Auditory Representation Learning'
 Name: Hardik B. Sailor  Email: sailor_hardik@daiict.ac.in  Sex: male  Thesis title: Auditory Representation Learning  Supervisor: Prof. Hemant A. Patil  University: Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication  Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar-382007, Gujarat, India  URL: https://drive.google.com/open?id=11l3d0imk2LuvYUoNgubdDzV3gocIw-pV 
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