Prof. Dr. Timo Baumann, Diplom-Informatiker
Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing at the Faculty for Informatics and Mathematics at OTH Regensburg.
I research spoken language, in particular in interactive and multi-modal scenarios, such as in spoken dialogue systems. My particular interests lie in responsiveness in interaction and I have been one of the main drivers of incremental spoken dialogue systems. Beyond that, I create and use corpora of spoken language, such as the Spoken Wikipedia Corpus. I like difficult problems, which is why I work on prosody, and even prosody of post-modern poetry, and more recently multi-modal lip-synchronous dubbing. Feel free to have a look at my recent projects.
Recent News:
- 2026-07: Congratulation to Thomas for having his first(!) paper on tokenization for for domain names accepted at KONVENS!
- 2026-06: Conferences are great to reconnect! As a result of DhD this spring, Thomas, Pablo, Clara and I now have an accepted article in CHR. Thanks everyone!
- 2026-05: Congratulations, Jonas, for winning the European TRIZ Student Award with AgenTRIZ, the result of the Masters thesis! (Also published @TRIZ-Anwendertag and TRAI2026 → Wenk et al. (2026), Wenk et al. (2026))
- 2026-01: Both of our LREC contributions have been accepted. Congrats Sebastian, congrats Christian et al.! → Hofstetter & Baumann (2026), Schuler et al. (2026)
- 2025-11: Our project on efficient dynamic tokens that allow adaptive language generation with transformer decoders is being funded in the KONWIHR network. Congrats, Diana!
- 2025-10: Our paper on "Rhythmicalizer: ten years on" has been accepted at DHd. Congrats, Felix! → Wippich et al. (2026)
- 2025-09: The Speinshart Meeting on Bavarian NLP was great. Let's see if it merits more positive news in the future.
- older news
To reach me, try:
- mail: timo.baumannÄŦoth-regensburg.de
- skype: timobaumann
- snail mail:
OTH Regensburg, Fakultät für Informatik und Mathematik
Prof. Dr. Timo Baumann
Seybothstraße 2
93053 Regensburg
- office: K122
- consultation hours: Tu 13-14; please make an appointment here or by e-mail (see above)
I occasionally do speech science and technology consulting. Feel free to contact me at mailÄŦtimobaumann.de .
Former appointments:
Acting professor for machine learning at the Department of Informatics at Universität Hamburg, Systems Scientist at the Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University; researcher and instructor in speech processing at Universität Hamburg (LT and NatS); research assistant at Bielefeld and Potsdam Universities before that. Various short-term appointments and free-lancing work with industry partners.