Florian Schiel

Florian Schiel is a Professor and senior researcher at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München's Institute of Phonetics and Speech Processing. He holds the chair of Phonetic Speech Processing and leads research in speech technology, forensic phonetics, and sound change modeling. Previously, he directed the Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS) from 1996 to 2010 and founded BAS Services Schiel in 2005. He earned his habilitation in 2001, focusing on the interplay between speech technology and phonology.

• Education: Dipl.-Ing and Dr.-Ing (Electrical Engineering, TU Munich, 1990 and 1993); Habilitation (Philosophical Faculty, LMU, 2001)
• Key Projects: VERBMOBIL, SmartKom, BITS, SmartWeb; Agent-Based Modeling of Sound Change

His research interests include speech corpus production, forensic phonetics, and analyzing large-scale speech data. He has supervised numerous PhD students and contributed to the Alcohol Language Corpus (ALC) and the MAUS phonetic segmentation tool.