Best paper award at TALN 2017

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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Annual team meeting 8-9 June

Programme Keynote speaker : Laurent Amsaleg (IRISA/CNRS, team LinkMedia, “multidimensional indexing and search by similarity: large scale, speech, quality”. Speakers : Pamela Carreno, Antoine Perquin, Raheel Qader, Aghilas Sini, Cédric Fayet, Rémy Kessler, Ahmad Alaa Eddine, Stefania Pecòre. Demo : Claude Simon, Damien Lolive.

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

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 works by adapting standard, i.e., dictionary-based, pronunciations to…

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