Odette Scharenborg

@odettes.bsky.social

Full professor of inclusive speech communication at TU Delft, The Netherlands. Former president of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA). Mother of 3🌈

De gasprijzen gaan door het dak en we hebben een watertekort. Toch stampen techmiljardairs als Elon Musk en Jeff Bezos stroomslurpende datacenters uit de grond. ⛔ We moeten nu de pauzeknop indrukken en de bouw van nieuwe datacenters stoppen! Teken de petitie 👇 www.fossielvrij.nl/stop-datacenters

Stop nieuwe datacenters!

De gasprijzen gaan door het dak en we hebben een watertekort. Toch stampen techmiljardairs als Elon Musk en Jeff Bezos stroomslurpende datacenters uit de grond. ⛔ We moeten nu de pauzeknop indrukken ...

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“Van de 10 doelpunten van het NLds elftal werden er 9 door zwarte spelers gemaakt. Toch ontwaakten zij met een dubbele kater: van de gemiste strafschoppen én van bakken racisme en haat. Was hun kleur tijdens het succes goed genoeg om Oranje te dragen, nu waren ze het tenue opeens onwaardig.” 🎯

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And that's a wrap on #GITT2026 Thanks to all the wonderful people for attending, our brilliant keynotes and presenters for sharing their insights, and our sponsors for making this happen. See you at the reception! 🥂 (and maybe next year? 😉)

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Great fun to be at @gitt-workshop.bsky.social - thanks so much for having me! And lovely summary of my talk! Credits where credits are due: I came up with the banger "speech technology is not inclusive but can be used to make society more inclusive" due to the interesting talks in the morning 😀

GITT 2026@gitt-workshop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After a lovely lunch break with lively discussion, our second keynote of the day, @odettes.bsky.social now presenting on inclusive speech technology at #GITT2026 🤩

6 years ago, I started asking a question that political science had largely ignored: how & why do women get involved in PRR parties as grassroots members? Today, my 1st book proposes an answer. Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right is now out online with OUP: academic.oup.com/book/62754

Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right

Abstract. This book investigates women’s involvement as members of populist radical right (PRR) parties. The latter have long been characterised as ‘men’s

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Did you know that more than 400,000 people in NL alone have a speech impairment and have problems communicating? We started a crowdfunding campaign to build an app to help them! Donate & help people with a speech impairment to fully participate in society 😍 www.supporttudelft.nl/project/veel...

App for live captioning of people with a speech impairment

We are Yuanyuan Zhang and Odette Scharenborg. Together with our team at the Delft Inclusive Speech Communication Lab at TU Delft, we strive to make communication through speech possible for everyone.C...

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5 years after our 1st paper showing that speech recognition (ASR) performance disparities exist for different Dutch speaker groups, we show that this is still(!) the case for state-of-the-art company-developed ASR systems. ASR systems are still not inclusive! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Speech recognition performance disparities between Dutch diverse speaker groups

Current state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems recognize typical speech (very) well. However, recent research has shown that their performance degrades for “diverse” speech, i.e.,...

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