PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Paul Dalsgaard

Paul Dalsgaard is a speech technology researcher at Aalborg University in Denmark whose work covers spoken dialogue systems and speech recognition. He served on the ESCA and ISCA boards from 1993 to 2001, including terms as treasurer and vice-president. A 1994 paper with Anders Bækgaard dealt with spoken language dialogue systems, and in 1997 he coauthored a paper on the Danish emotional speech database DES. As a professor at the Center for PersonKommunikation he chaired Eurospeech 2001 in Aalborg, and in 2008 the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) named him a Fellow for his work in spoken dialogue systems and his service to the association. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University.

Works
145
Citations
757
h-index
15
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1993–2001

    ESCA and ISCA board service

    He serves on the ESCA and ISCA boards from 1993 to 2001, as treasurer and vice-president in 1997–1999 and as treasurer in 1999–2001.

  2. 1994

    Spoken dialogue systems paper

    In 1994, he and Anders Bækgaard publish "Spoken Language Dialogue Systems" for the CRIM/FORWISS Workshop on Progress and Prospects of Speech Research and Technology in Munich.

  3. 1997

    The Danish emotional speech database

    In 1997, he coauthors a Eurospeech paper with Inger S. Engberg, Anya Varnich Hansen and Ove Andersen on DES, a database of Danish emotional speech recordings. In a listening test with 20 listeners, the emotions are identified correctly in 67.3% of cases on average.

  4. 2000

    Professor at CPK in Aalborg

    In 2000, he is a professor at Aalborg University's Center for PersonKommunikation, whose speech and multimedia communication group works on speech recognition, speech synthesis and spoken dialogue systems. Applicants for the group's five open research and teaching positions send their CVs to him.

  5. 2001

    General chair of Eurospeech 2001

    In September 2001, Aalborg hosts Eurospeech 2001, the 7th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, and he is its general chair.

  6. 2005–2010

    ISCA Advisory Council

    From 2005, he is a member of the ISCA Advisory Council, listed with Aalborg University, Denmark, and a term that runs to the end of 2010.

  7. 2008

    An ISCA Fellowship

    In 2008, ISCA names him a Fellow in recognition of his work in spoken dialogue systems and his service to ISCA as a board member and a chair of ISCA events.

  8. As of October 2026

    Professor emeritus at Aalborg

    He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electronic Systems at Aalborg University, with research output there from 1990 to 2018.

Career

  1. Since 2000Aalborg UniversityProfessor
  2. 1993–2001European Speech Communication AssociationBoard member; Treasurer and Vice-President, then Treasurer

From the biography and OpenAlex affiliations (the years of papers that list the organization), so some years are approximate.

Most-cited works

  1. Design, recording and verification of a danish emotional speech database1997 · European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech) · 130 citations
  2. Comparison of two tree-structured approaches for grapheme-to-phoneme conversion2002 · International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP) · 53 citationsWith Elmar Nöth
  3. Automatic speech recognition over error-prone wireless networks2005 · Speech Communication · 42 citations
  4. Data-driven identification of poly- and mono-phonemes for four european languages1993 · European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Eurospeech) · 35 citations
  5. On the use of data-driven clustering technique for identification of poly- and mono-phonemes for four European languages2002 · IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing · 31 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 21 October 2026.

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Colleagues

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Sources and credits

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  1. ISCA - Previous Board Members isca-speech.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  2. Spoken Language Dialogue Systems - Aalborg University's Research Portal vbn.aau.dk. Checked 20 October 2026.
  3. ISCA Archive - Design, recording and verification of a danish emotional speech database isca-archive.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  4. 16 October: fyi -- speech, etc, Denmark clg.scss.tcd.ie. Checked 20 October 2026.
  5. ISCA Archive - Eurospeech 2001 isca-archive.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  6. ISCA - Advisory Council isca-speech.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  7. ISCA - ISCA Fellow Program web.archive.org. Checked 20 October 2026.
  8. Paul Dalsgaard - Aalborg University's Research Portal vbn.aau.dk. Checked 20 October 2026.