Henk van den Heuvel is the director of the Centre for Language and Speech Technology (CLST) and Head of the Humanities Lab at the Faculty of Arts at Radboud University in Nijmegen (Netherlands), where he also holds the position of Research Data Manager (data steward) for the Faculty of Arts. He has expertise in Language and Speech Technology, specifically speech transcription, automatic speech recognition, and language learning.
Henk has worked on the data curation services of CLARIN NL and is currently involved with CLARIAH-NL efforts to improve speech recognition of dialect speech and data curation. He is also actively engaged in CLARIN , working on the CLARIN Resource Families, specifically those for oral history, sign languages and corpora of speech disorders. The CLARIN K-Centre ACE, on atypical communication, is hosted at CLST at Radboud University. In addition, he has organised multiple workshops and training activities on the usability of corpora of disordered speech and the implications of data privacy.
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