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Natacha Miniconi

Ph.D Student


LST ( Le Mans )

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Natacha . Miniconi [at] univ-lemans . fr

https://lium.univ-lemans.fr/en/team/natacha-miniconi/


Research Activities:

Thesis: Optimizing Human Intervention for Synthetic Speech Quality Evaluation: Active Learning for Adaptability

 

Biography

After graduating a bachelor’s degree at Sorbonne Nouvelle in linguistics and a master’s degree in Natural Language Processing (NLP). I am currently doing a PhD at Laboratoire Informatique de l’Université Le Mans (LIUM).

My thesis purpose is to propose an active learning approach for adaptability, where human intervention should be minimum, for a subjective task such as automatic evaluation of synthetic speech quality.

Publications

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LIUM Publications - 5

[1]Natacha Miniconi, Jane Wottawa, Meysam Shamsi, Anthony Larcher. Indicateurs phonétiques fondés sur les formants pour l'évaluation de la qualité des systèmes TTS. Journées Etude de la Parole (JEP 2026), Jun 2026, MONTPELLIER (FRANCE), France. <hal-05625427>
[2]Pauline Mas, Natacha Miniconi, Kevin Vythelingum, Meysam Shamsi, Aghilas Sini, et al.. VO2Lium : Voxygen and LIUM contribution for Blizzard 2025. The Blizzard Challenge 2025, Aug 2025, Leeuwarden, Netherlands. pp.18-23, ⟨10.21437/Blizzard.2025-2⟩. & <hal-05300968>
[3]Natacha Miniconi, Meysam Shamsi, Aghilas Sini, Anthony Larcher. Using a DeepFake Classifier to Rank Speech Synthesis Quality. The Speech Synthesis Workshop, Aug 2025, Leeuwarden, Netherlands. <hal-05172690>
[4]Natacha Miniconi, Meysam Shamsi, Anthony Larcher. When The MOS Predictor Asks For Training Annotation In Cross Lingual/Domain Adaptation. Interspeech, Aug 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands. <hal-05079511>
[5]Natacha Miniconi. Minimizing Human Effort in Adaptive Synthetic Speech Quality Assessment via Active Learning. 11th ISCA Doctoral Consortium, ISCA, Aug 2025, Delft, Nederlands, Netherlands. <hal-05212041>