Felix Burkhardt

Dr. Felix Burkhardt is a Lecturer at the Chair of Speech Communication, Technische Universität Berlin. He has held roles including temporary professor (2020-2022) and acting head of the Chair. His research focuses on emotion-oriented computing, speech synthesis/analysis, and machine learning applications in audio processing. He leads R&D at audEERING GmbH since 2018, developing emotion AI technologies.

Education: PhD in Speech Communication from TU Berlin. Key projects include the EmoDB emotional speech database, open-source tools like Speechalyzer and Nkululeko, and contributions to W3C's EmotionML standard. He serves on program committees for top conferences (ACII, ICASSP, Interspeech) and journals.

Research interests span emotional speech modeling, speaker classification, voice search systems, and ethical implications of paralinguistic technologies. Over 150+ publications in top venues (IEEE, Springer, ACM) showcase his work on emotion recognition, speech synthesis, and machine learning frameworks.