Expérience professionnelle
- 2014-… : Team leader, Speech Group (MULTISPEECH), LORIA – INRIA Nancy – Grand-Est.
- 2009-2013 : Research, Speech Group (PAROLE), LORIA – INRIA Nancy – Grand-Est.
- 1998-2008 : Management of the Speech Recognition Group, France Télécom R&D, Lannion.
- 1991-1997 : In charge of Speech Recognition Studies, CNET (French National Research Center for Telecommunications), Lannion.
- 1981-1991 : Research & Development in Speech Recognition, CNET (French National Research Center for Telecommunications), Lannion.
Formation
- 2008 : « Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches« , University of Avignon: « Variability of Speech Signal and Robustness in Automatic Speech Recognition« .
- 1988 : PhD Thesis, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris: « Speaker Independent Connected Word Recognition based on Statistical Methods« .
- 1979-1981 : École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris.
- 1976-1979 : École Polytechnique, Palaiseau.
Centres d’intérêt et compétences
- Speech modeling
- Speech recognition and speech synthesis, statistic methods
- Speech-text alignment
- Speech prosody, punctuation, utterance modality
- Unsupervised training / adaptation
- Speech variabilities, stochastic models, HMM, …
- Non-native speech recognition, robust speech recognition
- Speaker and utterance verification, confidence measures
