Anton Batliner obtained his M.A. in Scandinavian languages in 1973 and his Dr. phil. in Phonetics in 1978, both at the University of Munich. From 1978 to 1984, he was assistant professor at the Institute for Scandinavian Languages (University of Munich). His fields of research up to 1984 were Scandinavian literature, translation, language and gender, and phonology. From 1984 to 1996, he has worked in several research projects on prosody that were financed by the German Research Council (DFG) and by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Technology (BMBF). In winter 1992/1993, he was visiting scientist at the Daimler Benz Research Center, Ulm, and in summer 1994, he was visiting scientist at the IMS, University of Stuttgart. Since 1997 he has been a member of the research staff of the Pattern Recognition Lab. He is coeditor of one book and author/coauthor of some 200 articles.

His  research interests are the modelling and automatic recognition of emotional user states, all aspects of prosody in speech processing, the uni- and multi-modal focus of attention, the automatic assessment of non-native speech, and spontaneous speech phenomena such as disfluencies, irregular phonation, etc.

Activities:

Reviewer: Journals: JASA, IEEE Transactions (div.), Speech Communication, Computer Speech and Language, Language and Speech, AHCI, JMUI, etc. Conferences: Interspeech, ICASSP, ICPhS, ACL, ASRU, ICMI, ACCI, etc.

Workshop/Sessions (co-) organzer: Emotional Corpora I, II, III (LREC), Paralinguistics (ICPhS 07), Non-prototypical Emotions (ACCI 09), Emotion Challenge (Interspeech 09), Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (Prosody 2010), etc.

Associated editor: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Guest editor: AHCI, Speech Communication