Olivier Crouzet : Perception de la parole et de la musique à travers un implant cochléaire ou des simulations d’implants cochléaires

Seminar from Olivier Crouzet (LLING)   Date: 24/11/2023 Time: 10h00 Localization: IC2, Boardroom Speaker: Olivier Crouzet     Perception of speech and music through a cochlear implant or simulations of cochlear implants (channel vocoders): Principles of operation, sound illustrations and perceptual data   The cochlear implant is a special type of hearing aid designed to […]

Youness Dkhissi

Enriched end-to-end approach with variable complexity for speech-to-textStarting: 01/10/2023PhD Student: Youness DkhissiAdvisor(s): Anthony LarcherCo-advisor(s): Stéphane Pateux, Valentin Vielzeuf, Elys Allesiardo (Orange)Funding: CIFREGlobal context and problematics of the subject Speech transcription is an essential tool in many services; it enables a user’s request formulated in natural language to be transcribed into a dialogue system, but can […]

Offre stage M2 : Caractérisation multi-modale des anches de clarinette

Multi-modal characterisation of clarinet reeds Hosting labs: Marie Tahon, Bruno Gazengel, Amélie Gaillard, Emmanuel Brasseur Hosting labs: Le stage se déroule au sein du Laboratoire d’Acoustique de l’Université du Mans (LAUM) pour la partie expérimentale et au LIUM pour la partie analyses. Place: Le Mans Contact: Marie.Tahon(at)univ-lemans.fr et Bruno.Gazengel(at)univ-lemans.fr Application: Send CV + cover letter […]

Séminaires de Emmett Strickland & Marc Evrard

Seminares from Emmett Strickland (MoDyCo) and Marc Evrard (LISN)   Date: 20/10/2023 Time: 11h00 Localization: IC2, Boardroom Speakers: Emmett Strickland and Marc Evrard     Prosody of Nigerian pidgin: corpus approach and experimental validation with a text-to-speech system   Résumé: Nigerian pidgin is a poorly endowed language spoken by some 100 million people in West […]

Martin Lebourdais

PhD defence, Martin Lebourdais Date : 17/10/2023 Time : 9h00 Location : Le Mans Université; IC2 buiding Auditorium   Title :Speaker interactions : from overlapped speech to interruption detection.   Jury members : Romain Serizel, MCF HDR, Loria, Reviewer Ricard Marxer, Professor, LIS, Reviewer Martine Adda-Decker Research Director, CNRS, Examiner Hervé Bredin Chargé de recherche, […]

Nuit Européenne Des Chercheurs 2023

The LIUM at the European Researchers’ Night Date: 29/09/2023 Time: de 18h to midnight Localization: Les Quinconces Come and talk to researchers from LIUM’s Language and Speech Technology team and find out how Artificial Intelligence works through various demonstrations.     ** 6pm-Midnight: Demonstrations in the “Grand Labo”, Exhibition Hall (Nathalie Camelin, Antoine Laurent, Thibault […]

Recrutement d’un.e doctorant.e sur l’interprétabilité

Interpretability of pre-trained models for automatic speech processing Supervisor: Nicolas Dugué, , Anthony Larcher (direction) and Marie Tahon (co-direction) Host team: LIUM – LST Localization: Le Mans Contact: Nicolas.Dugue(at)univ-lemans.fr, Marie.Tahon(at)univ-lemans.fr   Context : With the emergence of neural networks, work in the field of machine learning has shifted away from traditional methods, commonly known as […]

Contrat post-doctoral : Multilingual speech translation under resource constraints

Multilingual speech translation under resource constraints   Supervisor: Antoine Laurent Host team: LIUM – LST Localization: Le Mans Contact: Antoine.Laurent(at)univ-lemans.fr   Context : This postdoc is in the field of automatic natural language processing (NLP) and more particularly automatic speech translation under resource constraints. It’s a part of the DGA Rapid project COMMUTE.   Objectives: […]

CHICA-AI

Training CHIldren reading Comprehension skills with Adapted Artificial Intelligence (CHICA-AI)Date: 10/2023 – 09/2027Funding: ANRCall: AAPG2023Partners: Lalilo (Toulouse), IRIT (Toulouse), EMC (Lyon)URL: https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/en/chica-ai/LIUM Participant(s): Nathalie CamelinAntoine LaurentEmmanuelle BillardThe 2019 PISA study shows that 20% of French 15-year-old students have severe difficulties in reading and that socio-economic gaps widen the differences in levels. Lalilo intends to reduce […]

Réflexions sur la mixité filles/garçons en informatique

Reflections on gender equality in IT   The Institut Informatique Claude Chappe at Le Mans University is organising a half-day discussion on gender equality in IT on 6 July 2023 at 2pm at EVE (Le Mans University campus). The aim of this half-day event is to discuss what can be done to make IT and […]