Emmanuelle Billard – Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans

Robustness of speaker recognition systems: additive noise, reverberation, and linguistic content variabilities

Seminar from Aran Mohammadamini, Postdoctoral fellow at LIUM Date: 05/04/2024 Time: 10h15 Localization: IC2, Boardroom Speaker: Mohammad Mohammadamini Robustness of speaker recognition systems: additive noise, reverberation, and linguistic content variabilities Speaker recognition systems authenticate the identity of speakers from their speech utterances. In order to authenticate the identity of a claimed […]

Recrutement : thèse sur l’évaluation de la voix synthétique

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Optimizing Human Intervention for Synthetic Speech Quality Evaluation: Active Learning for Adaptability Supervisor: Anthony Larcher (direction) and Meysam Shamsi Host team: LIUM – LST Localization: Le Mans Contact: meysam.shamsi(at)univ-lemans.fr Context : The primary objective of Text-to-Speech (TTS), speech conversion and speech to speech translation system is to synthesize or generate a high-quality speech signal. […]

Traduction automatique de la parole en pictogrammes pour faciliter la communication de personnes en situation de handicap langagier

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Seminar from Cécile Macaire, PhD student in the GETALP team at the LIG Date: 22/03/2024 Time: 10h15 Localization: IC2, Boardroom Speaker: Cécile Macaire Automatic translation of speech into pictograms to facilitate communication for people with language disabilities When a person’s language skills (speech production and comprehension, reading, writing) are impaired or […]

To [h] or not to [h]? L2 production of /h/ in semi-spontaneous speech by French leaners of English and of German.

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Seminar from Jane Wottawa (LIUM) Date: 15/03/2024 Time: 10h15 Localization: IC2, Boardroom Speaker: Jane Wottawa To [h] or not to [h]? L2 production of /h/ in semi-spontaneous speech by French leaners of English and of German. The present study investigates the production of /h/ or lack thereof in semi- spontaneous L2 […]

PereFRALL

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Thinking Franco-German relations (PereFRALL)Date: 09/2023 – 08/2024Funding: AutresCall: Amorçage interdisciplinaire MSH Ange-GuépinPartners: Centre de Recherche sur les identités, les Nations et l’Interculturalité (CRINI) (France)URL: https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/en/perefrall/LIUM Participant(s): Jane WottawaSummary When we think of Franco-German relations, it is clear that they are not described in the same terms on either side of the Rhine. While the figure […]

Contrat post-doctoral : transformers interprétables

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Interpretable transformers Supervisor: Nicolas Dugué, Maître de conférences Host team : LIUM – LST Localization : Le Mans Contact : Nicolas.Dugue(at)univ-lemans.fr Context : The ANR DIGING project. Recent approaches to learning lexical embeddings have focused on results, often to the detriment of interpretability and algorithmic complexity. However, interpretability and interaction with the results produced […]

Pinte of AI

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Corpus ALLIES

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Corpus: ALLIES (Corpus ALLIES)Author(s): Anthony LarcherMartin LebourdaisMarie TahonThe ALLIES Corpus was produced within the European CHIST-Era project ALLIES. The ALLIES project enabled to carry out a campaign for the evaluation of Broadcast News across time diarization systems using French data. This project is an extension of the previous ESTER, REPERE and ETAPE evaluation campaigns that […]

Annotation et classification automatique de la terminalité pour la description des interruptions dans les contenus de médias audiovisuels

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Seminar from Aghilas Sini (LIUM) Date: 24/01/2024 Time: 14h00 Localization: IC2, Boardroom Speaker: Rémi Uro Automatic annotation and classification of terminology for the description of interruptions in audiovisual media content In order to better understand the mechanisms involved in managing speaking turns and interruptions in audiovisual media content, an annotation was […]

Soutenance de thèse : Valentin Pelloin

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PhD defence, Valentin Pelloin Date : 24/01/2024 Time : 9h30 Location : Le Mans Université; IC2 buiding Auditorium Title: Spoken language understanding in human-computer dialogue systems in the era of pre-trained models Jury members : Christophe CERISARA, Researcher, LORIA, Nancy, Reviewer Benoit FAVRE, Professor, LIS, Marseille, Reviewer Géraldine DAMNATI, Research Engineer, Orange Labs, […]