Christoph Draxler

Christoph Draxler, Bavarian Archive for Speech Signals (BAS), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, head of the corpus and tools group. Christoph studied computer science at TU Munich and Romance literature and linguistics at LMU Munich. In his PhD dissertation he developed database predicates in Prolog to access relational databases.

At the BAS, he was responsible for the collection of several large-scale speech databases, e.g. SpeechDat II and SpeechDat-Car (German), Ph@ttSessionz, VOYS, and he has developed a number of speech tools, e.g. SpeechRecorder, WebTranscribe, and the online perception experiment tool percy. His research interests are crowdsourcing for speech processing and regional variations of spoken language.