Best paper award at TALN 2017

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. The paper of Raheel Qader, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Damien Lolive, and Pascale Sébillot on speech disfluencies got rewarded by the Best Paper Award at the conference TALN 2017, held in Orléans (France) in June. The paper can be accessed here: https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01532031/file/disfluency-generation.pdf.

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Séminaire au vert : 8-9 juin

Programme Orateur invité : Laurent Amsaleg (IRISA/CNRS, team LinkMedia, « Indexation multidimensionnelle et recherches par similarité : grande échelle, vitesse, qualité ». Orateurs : Pamela Carreno, Antoine Perquin, Raheel Qader, Aghilas Sini, Cédric Fayet, Rémy Kessler, Ahmad Alaa Eddine, Stefania Pecòre. Démo : Claude Simon, Damien Lolive.

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PhD defense : Marc Dupont: Glove-based gesture recognition for real-time outdoors robot control, 28th March, 2017.

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. Although gesture recognition has been studied for several decades, much research stays in the realm of indoors laboratory experiments. In this thesis, we address the problem of designing a truly usable, real- world gesture recognition system, focusing mainly on the real-time control…

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PhD defense : Raheel Qader: Pronunciation and disfluency modeling for expressive speech synthesis, 31st March, 2017.

Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English. In this thesis, we address the problem of expressivity in Text-To-Speech (TTS) by incorporating two phenomena with a high impact on speech: pronunciation variants and speech disfluencies. In the first part of this thesis, we present a pronunciation variant generation method which…

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