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David House

Also known as House David

David House is a KTH speech scientist whose research connects phonetics, speech perception and speech technology. He earned a phonetics Ph.D. at Lund, worked at Lund and Skövde, joined KTH in 1998 and became a full professor in 2007. His 1999 work tested eyebrow movements as cues in audiovisual speech, and his 2025 work explored controllable English-accented Swedish text-to-speech. He co-chaired Interspeech 2017 and became an ISCA fellow in 2022. As of October 2026, he leads CLARIN SPEECH, the speech-analysis knowledge center linked to KTH's Språkbanken Tal and the CLARIN ERIC infrastructure.

Now at
KTH Royal Institute of Technology and CLARIN SPEECH
Works
223
Citations
1,846
h-index
23
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1982–1998

    From Lund to KTH

    He works in Lund University's Department of Linguistics and Phonetics from 1982 to 1997, earns a Ph.D. in phonetics at Lund in 1991, and works at the University of Skövde's Department of Languages from 1997 to 1998. KTH hires him as associate professor in 1998.

  2. 1999–2007

    Audiovisual prosody research

    In 1999, he and Björn Granström and Magnus Lundeberg test eyebrow movements as visual cues for prominence and phrasing in audiovisual text-to-speech. KTH appoints him full professor of acoustic and phonetic analysis in 2007.

  3. 2017

    Co-chairing Interspeech

    He serves as general co-chair of Interspeech 2017, hosted in Stockholm by Stockholm University and KTH's Department of Speech, Music and Hearing.

  4. 2022

    An ISCA fellowship

    In 2022, ISCA elects him a fellow and cites his multidisciplinary work across speech science and technology.

  5. 2025

    Controllable English-accented TTS

    In 2025, he and coauthors publish a Swedish text-to-speech study that varies English-accentedness and tests listener preferences for inserted English words.

  6. As of October 2026

    Leading CLARIN SPEECH

    As of October 2026, he leads CLARIN SPEECH, the speech-analysis knowledge center linked to KTH's Språkbanken Tal and the European CLARIN ERIC infrastructure.

Career

  1. Since 1998KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyAssociate Professor, Full Professor
  2. NowCLARIN SPEECHLead
  3. 1997–1998University of Skövde
  4. 1982–1997Lund University

Education

  1. 1991Lund UniversityPh.D. in phonetics

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Most-cited works

  1. Tonal Perception in Speech1990 · 181 citations
  2. Perception of questions and statements in Neapolitan Italian1997 · European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech) · 105 citations
  3. Tone production, tone perception and Kammu tonogenesis2006 · Phonology · 78 citations
  4. Adapt - a multimodal conversational dialogue system in an apartment domain2000 · International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) · 76 citationsWith Björn Granström
  5. Spontal: A Swedish Spontaneous Dialogue Corpus of Audio, Video and Motion Capture2010 · Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC) · 70 citations

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Sources and credits

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  1. David House speech.kth.se. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Prosodic Cues in Multimodal Speech Perception internationalphoneticassociation.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. ISCA Events: Interspeech 2017, Stockholm, Sweden services.isca-speech.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. 2022 ISCA Fellows Announced services.isca-speech.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Intrasentential English in Swedish TTS: perceived English-accentedness isca-archive.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Språkbanken Tals organisation sprakbanken.speech.kth.se. Checked 19 October 2026.