Projects and funding

Current projects

2025 – 2029

ANR Syncogest
Coordinator
Speech and gesture synchronisation. With Praxiling (Montpellier) and EuroMov DHM.
2025 – 2030

MSCA Doctoral Network — PSST
Participant
Privacy for Smart Speech Technology. European joint doctorate network.
2026 – 2029

ROGSILT — Inria-DFKI project
CO-PI
Robust and Generalizable Sign Language Translation.
2023 – 2027

Défi Inria COLaF
Co-PI
Corpora and Tools for the Languages of France. With the ALMANACH team, Inria Paris. colaf.huma-num.fr
2024 – 2028

ANR RHU I-DEAL
Participant
Interdisciplinary programme on the management of Crohn's disease; our contribution concerns multimodal speech and facial analysis as an early marker.

Work that left the laboratory: maturation projects, industrial grants, and a spin-off.

Spin-off

Automatic, speech-accurate lip synchronisation for animated characters and video games, built on the talking-head models developed in the team.

2022 – 2023

Ultra-realistic speech animation with MetaHuman and Unreal Engine.

Project lead

2018 – 2020

AI-driven speech animation system; the engineering step between research prototype and product.

Project lead

2013 – 2015

Software development action around the articulatory visualisation tool.

2021 – 2024
ANR Full3DTalkinghead
WP leader
AI-driven 3D talking head.
2021 – 2024
ANR LOR-AI
Contributor
Sign language generation.
2021 – 2024
CNRS PRIME 80 — GEPACI
Co-PI
Interdisciplinary study of gesture and speech. With Praxiling.
2020 – 2023
HumanE-AI-Net (H2020 ICT-48)
Co-PI
European network for human-centred artificial intelligence.
2019 – 2022
ANR BENEPHIDIRE
Lead partner
AI-based detection of speech disfluencies for the diagnosis of stuttering.
2019 – 2021
AI4EU (H2020)
Contributor
European AI-on-demand platform. With Technicolor / InterDigital.
2017 – 2021
PIA-2 e-FRAN METAL
WP leader
Pronunciation learning for second-language acquisition.
2009 – 2013
ANR ViSAC
Coordinator
Bimodal acoustic-visual speech synthesis.
2007 – 2013
CMCU France–Tunisia
Partner
Bilateral projects on Arabic speech production.
2004 – 2015
Earlier projects
STIC-AmSud MCC, CORExp, ExpLoria and others.