Aaricia Herygers
Linguist / Voice Technologist

Linguist / Voice Technologist
Interested in German, phonetics, and speech technology.
Research Assistant in Speech Processing in the project "HAnS - Hochschul-Assistenz-System" Teaching assistant for the module "Fieldwork Cultural Geography" Diversity Ambassador at the Faculty of Arts
Student Ambassador at Student Services Campus Antwerp Tutoring sessions for German as a foreign language in secondary and higher education Multidisciplinary program combining speech and technology
Honors program: "Leadership: Making the difference!"
Thesis: "Spraakherkenning, wa is da? — Bias in Flemish Speech Recognition" Formal and Computational Linguistics
Thesis: "Language Learning Motivation of Flemish Secondary School Students" Dutch, English, German
Thesis: "The influence of Flemish pupils' attitudes toward German on their language acquisition"Experience
Education
Presentations
Herygers, A., Verkhodanova, V., Coler, M., Scharenborg, O., & Georges, M. (2022, September 17). Spraakherkenning, wa is da? — Bias in Flemish speech recognition [Poster presentation]. YFRSW, Incheon, South Korea.
Herygers, A., & Peters, E. (2022, August 24-27). Language learning motivation of Flemish secondary-school students [Poster presentation]. EuroSLA 31, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Herygers, A., Verkhodanova, V., Coler, M., Scharenborg, O., & Georges, M. (2022, May 26-28). Spraakherkenning, wa is da? — Bias in Flemish speech recognition [Conference presentation]. 71. StuTS + 31. TaCoS, Leeuwarden, Netherlands.
Herygers, A., & Peters, E. (2021, May 6-9). Language learning motivation of Flemish secondary-school students [Conference presentation]. 69. StuTS + TaCoS 2021, Leipzig, Germany.