Tanja Schultz
Tanja Schultz works on speech processing and human-centred AI. At Carnegie Mellon, her work included multilingual recognition and speech translation. She started a Cognitive Systems Lab in Karlsruhe in June 2007. She became a professor of Cognitive Systems at Bremen in 2015. Her lab uses machine learning and biosignal processing. Her April 2026 lecture covered silent and neural communication interfaces that convert muscle and brain signals into audible speech, and work on attention and cognitive decline.
- Now at
- University of Bremen
- Works
- 723
- Citations
- 21,212
- h-index
- 70
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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Earlier research
Multilingual speech technology
Schultz’s work includes language-independent and adaptive acoustic modelling for speech recognition. She also worked on speech translation and rapid development of systems for new languages. These projects address the amount of data and work needed to support languages with limited resources.
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2007
A Cognitive Systems Lab
She started a lab in Karlsruhe in June 2007. Her lab captures and interprets speech, muscle, and brain activity for human-centred technology. These research directions connect language systems with signals that can provide information about human needs.
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2015
Cognitive Systems at Bremen
Schultz has been professor of Cognitive Systems at Bremen since 2015. Her lab combines machine learning with biosignal processing.
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2026
Communication from body signals
Her April 2026 lecture described silent and neural interfaces that convert muscle and brain signals into audible speech. It also covered inferring auditory attention and cognitive decline. The lecture sets out research examples and possible uses of biosignal-adaptive communication systems.
Sources and credits
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