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 domain names accepted at KONVENS! ... and to Avery et al., for having HIS first paper, on dialectal ASR for Moroccan Arabic at LaTeLL! Congratulations, guys!
- 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 his 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.