Projects, supervisions and responsabilities

I was involved in European projects:

  • 2004 – 2007  projet STREP HIWIRE : Human Input that Works In Real Environments,
  • 2010 – 2012  projet InterReg IV A ALLEGRO : Adaptative Language Learning technology for the Greater Region),
  • 2012 – 2014 ERASMUS IP  : LearningComputer Programming in Virtual Environment
  • 2018 – 2021  projet H2020 -ICT-2018-2020 COMPRISE : Cost-effective, Multilingual, Privacy-driven voice-enabled Services

I was and I am involved in national projects:

  • 2002 – 2004 STIC-SHS du CNRS RAIVES  : Automatic Search for Verbal and Audio  Information
  • 2012 – 2015 FUI-OSEO, FEDER Rapsodie : Automatic Speech Recognition for Deaf or Disabled People
  • 2015 – 2017 FUI VoiceHome
  • 2013 – 2017 ANR Blanc SIMI-2 ContNomina : Exploitation of Context for Proper Names Recognition in the Diachronic Audio Documents
  • 2016 – 2017  CPER LCHN (Langues, Connaissances et Humanités Numériques) MGB (Multi-Genre Broadcast).
  • 2019 – 2021 ANR-DFG M-PHASIS  : Migration and Patterns of Hate Speech in Social Media – A Cross-cultural Perspective
  • 2019 – 2020 MMT  : Man Machine Teaming, Semantic Context for Denoising using DNN
I participated in the evaluation campaigns Ester (Technolangue) and Etape (ANR) for broadcastnews transcription.

Software:

I am  co-author of
  • ANTS (Automatic News Transcription System)

My supervisions and co-supervisions:

  • 2000 – 2004 PhD Thesis in Computer Science of Fabrice Lauri – Speaker adaptation of Markov acoustic models for speech recognition 
  • 2001 – 2004 PhD Thesis in Computer Science of Vincent Barreaud – Automatic speech recognition: noise compensation by speech transformation
  • 2003 – 2007PhD Thesis in Computer Science of Emmanuel Didiot – Keyword detection in radio broadcastnews
  • 2004 – 2008 PhD Thesis in Computer Science of Ghazi Bouselmi – Contribution to the automatic recognition of non-native speech (HIWIRE European project)
  • 2014 – 2016 PhD Thesis in Computer Science of Imran Sheikh. Exploitation of context in diachronic audio documents (ANR ContNomina project)
  • 2018 – 2021 PhD Thesis in Computer Science of Nicolas – Furnon Deep learning for speech enhancement in ad-hoc acoustic antennas
  • 2018 – 2021 PhD Thesis in Computer Science of  Raphael Duroselle –  Domain adaptation  based on neural networks for speech treatment
  • 2019 – 2022 PhD Thesis in Computer Science of  Ashwin Geet D’Sa – Online hate speech against migrants (ANR-DFG M-PHASIS project)
  • 12 Master 2 research internships
  • 5 post-docs and 3 engineers

Responsabilities:

  • Participation in juries of PhD theses, HDRs, selection comissions
  • Reviewing of articles for different conferences and journals : Speech Communication,
    IEEE Transaction on Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Acta Acoustica, conférences internationales ICASSP (IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech and Signal Processing), Interspeech, ICSLP (International Conference on Spoken Language Processing) et conférence nationale JEP (« Journées d’Etude sur la Parole »).
  • Present : Board member of Commission de Mention Informatique
  • Present: Member of  Program  Committee of International Conference on Information Systems and Economic Intelligence
  • Present: Member of selection Committee for ATER IUT Charlemagne