Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

Dolby

• Company: Dolby (Spain)

• Duration: Sep – Dec 2018

• Participants: Antoine Liutkus (Inria Zenith), Emmanuel Vincent

• Abstract: This contract aims to evaluate the feasibility of state-of-the-art source separation technology and related technologies for four use cases, and to identify those which could be commercially exploited, possibly after a follow-up R&D phase.

Honda Research Intitute Japan (first contract)

• Company: Honda Research Intitute Japan (Japan)

• Duration: Feb – Mar 2018

• Participants: Aditya Nugraha, Romain Serizel, Emmanuel Vincent

• Abstract: This contract targets collaborative research on multichannel speech and audio processing and eventual software licensing in order to enable voice-based communication in challenging noisy and reverberant conditions in which current hands-free voice-based interfaces perform poorly.

Honda Research Intitute Japan (second contract)

• Company: Honda Research Intitute Japan (Japan)

• Duration: Aug 2018 – Mar 2019

• Participants: Nancy Bertin (CNRS - IRISA), Antoine Deleforge, Diego Di Carlo

• Abstract: This is a follow-up contract, which also targets collaborative research on multichannel speech and audio processing and eventual software licensing in order to enable voice-based communication in challenging noisy and reverberant conditions in which current hands-free voice-based interfaces perform poorly.

Studio Maia

• Company: Studio Maia SARL (France)

• Other partners: Imaging Factory

• Duration: Jul 2017 – March 2019

• Participants: Yassine Boudi, Vincent Colotte, Mathieu Hu, Emmanuel Vincent

• Abstract: This Inria Innovation Lab aims to develop a software suite for voice processing in the multimedia creation chain. The software is aimed at sound engineers and it will rely on the team's expertise in speech enhancement, robust speech and speaker recognition, and speech synthesis.