Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European initiatives

• Program: Interreg

• Project acronym: Allegro

• Project title: Adaptive Language LEarning technology for the Greater Region

• Duration: 01/01/2009 to 31/12/2012

• Coordinator: Saarland University

• Other partners: Supélec Metz and DFK Kaiserslautern

• Abstract: Allegro is an Interreg project (in cooperation with the Department of COmputational LInguistics and Phonetics of the Saarland University and Supélec Metz) which started in April 2010. It is intended to develop software for foreign language learning. Our contribution consists of developing tools to help learners to master the prosody of a foreign language, i.e. the prosody of English by French learners, and then prosody of French by German learners. We started by recording (with the project Intonale) and segmenting of a corpus made up of English sentences uttered by French speakers and we analyzed specific problems encountered by French speakers when speaking English. The corrections were implemented in Jsnoori. The final review was held on May 15 in Saarbrücken.

• Program: Eureka - Eurostars

• Project acronym: i3DMusic

• Project title: Real-time Interactive 3D Rendering of Musical Recordings

• Duration: 01/10/2010 to 31/03/2014

• Coordinator: Audionamix (FR)

• Other partners: EPFL (CH), Sonic Emotion (CH)

• Abstract: The i3DMusic project aims to enable real-time interactive respatialization of mono or stereo music content. This will be achieved through the combination of source separation and 3D audio rendering techniques. PANAMA is responsible for the source separation work package, more precisely for designing scalable online source separation algorithms and estimating advanced spatial parameters from the available mixture.