Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• Shinji Watanabe, Johns Hopkins University (USA)

• Robust speech recognition [22], [10], [9], [70]

• PHC UTIQUE - Arabic speech synthesis, with ENIT (École Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia)

• Duration: 2015 - 2018.

• Coordinators: Vincent Colotte (France) and Zied LACHIRI (Tunisia).

• Participants: Vincent Colotte, Amal Houidhek, Denis Jouvet

• Abstract: Modeling of a speech synthesis system for the Arabic language. This includes the use of an Arabic speech corpus, the selection of linguistic features relevant to an Arabic speech synthesis, as well as improving the quality of the speech signal generated by the system (prosodic and acoustic features).

MULTISPEECH co-supervises PhD students.

• Program: FIRAH, International Foundation of Applied Disability Research

• Project title: La famille face au handicap : la gestion du stress parental des parents d’enfants souffrant du syndrome de Dravet

• Duration: Jan 2017- Dec 2019

• Coordinator: T. Leonova, University of Lorraine (Perseus)

• Other partners: MHS-USR 3261 CNRS, Université de Lorraine, Associations Alliance Syndrome de Dravet (France) and Alliance Syndrome de Dravet (Suisse), Hopital de Hautepierre - Strasbourg University (France), Hopital Necker enfants malades - Paris Descartes University - INSERM U1129, Hôpital Robert Debré - Paris Diderot University- INSERM U1141, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève - Université de Genève (Suisse), Université catholique du Sacré Cœur - Rome (Italie), Quebec University (Canada), McMaster Children’s Hospital - McMaster University - Hamilton (Canada), MIA518-AgroParisTech/INRA.

• Participant: Agnès Piquard-Kipffer

• Abstract: the aims of the project are, in a first step, to explore parental stress with Chidren with Dravet syndrom which combine infant epilepsy and autism and in a second step to create a training programm for professionnals of Education [68], [69]

In this project, MULTISPEECH is involved in finding the best ways to maximize the communication efficiency between the children and their families, using the methodology or the tools created by the Handicom project.