Description Dr. Simon Stone [Dartmouth]. "How I discovered a new German speech sound – and why nobody cares". Computer science meets linguistics in this mashup. Here's how Simon describes it, "I want to invite the audience on a trip into speech science research from both an engineer’s and a phonetician’s perspective. We will explore how humans produce speech, how we scientifically describe speech sounds, and how engineers translate them into technical systems to learn more about this amazing human ability. In that context, I want to tell the story of how I once worked at the intersection of multiple disciplines in the broader field of speech research, and how it ironically made it more complicated for people from these disciplines to hear what each other had to say."