Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

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: We developed a software suite for voice processing in the multimedia creation chain. The software was designed for sound engineers, and relied on the team's expertise in speech enhancement, robust speech and speaker recognition, and speech synthesis.

Honda Research Institute Japan

• Company: Honda Research Institute Japan (Japan)

• Duration: Aug 2018 – Mar 2019

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

• Abstract: This was a follow-up contract targeting 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.

Dassault and Thalès - Man Machine Teaming Initiative

• Company: Dassault and Thalès (France)

• Duration: Apr 2019 - Sept 2020

• Participants: Irène Illina, Dominique Fohr, Ismael Bada, Stephane Level

• Abstract: The primary goal of the project is to develop a new approach that allows coupling speech enhancement with semantic analysis for improving speech recognition robustness.