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 is a member of the research staff of the Institute for Pattern Recognition. He is coeditor of one book and author/coauthor of more than 150 technical articles.

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