Andreas Weilinghoff

Andreas Weilinghoff is a Junior Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Koblenz, the youngest university in Germany. His work bridges empirical phonetics, sociolinguistics, and computational methods.

• Junior Professor (2023–present)
• Associated Researcher in Digital Humanities at University of Bern
• Member of German Association for the Study of English, ISCA, and Departmental Governing Body
• AI Consultant for English/Arts departments

Research Focus: Quantitative phonetics, sociophonetics, AI-driven speech analysis, and computational linguistics. He develops open-source tools like Whisper-to-TextGrid converters and formant analyzers to democratize speech technology in education.

• Whisper server infrastructure for university
• Speech recognition software for MAXQDA integration
• TextGrid manipulation scripts

His scientific contributions include:

• 2024: Evaluation of Whisper for sociolinguistic transcription (ICAME47)
• 2022: Aitken’s Law vowel duration analysis (NWAV50)
• 2023: Historical review of phonetic research (University of Bern)
• 2021: ASR demonstrations at ICAME42