Federal University of Alagoas · Faculty of Languages
fonUFAL carries out theoretical and experimental research on speech sounds, prosody, and language processing, combining linguistic description, experimental methods, speech technologies, and documentation. The group is registered in the CNPq Directory of Research Groups (DGP/CNPq).
Featuredeventsspeech synthesisspeech technologies
Maceió will host the 14th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW14) and Blizzard Challenge 2027 from 6 to 9 September 2027, as part of fonUFAL’s activities in speech technology research, training, and international collaboration.
trainingacoustic phoneticsPraat
A remote extension course taught by Arthur Terto and Ebson Silva introduces the foundations of Acoustic Phonetics and basic procedures for instrumental speech analysis using Praat.
eventstrainingphonology
A fonUFAL initiative brings together Fábia Fulni-ô and Januacele da Costa for two online sessions, on 13 and 20 October 2026, focused on phonological description and analysis of natural languages.
Production and perception of boundaries, discourse structuring, and real-time processing.
Acoustic analysis, speech perception, eye tracking, EEG, and multimodal methods.
Speech synthesis, naturalness, TTS evaluation, automatic metrics, and open science.
The Phonetics and Phonology Research Group (fonUFAL) promotes equality, diversity, and inclusion, aiming for academic research excellence and broad public reach. We are committed to an intellectual environment that is welcoming, encouraging, and stimulating, and that respects the full spectrum of human diversity in race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, socioeconomic status, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, and belief. The members of fonUFAL work actively to create and maintain an environment of affirmation, protection, mutual respect, and unrestricted support.