Lamia holds an Electrical Engineering degree since September 2002, in Algeria. Having obtained a master's degree, in digital Telecommunications and Applications, in 2004 from UVHC in France, she has obtained another master's degree in Applied Sciences, in 2005 from Brussels's University (ULB).
Between 2005 and 2008, she was a Teaching Assistant at LIST department within the Applied Sciences faculty at ULB. Currently, she is a researcher at TCTS Laboratory for the project TOMO3D.

I am a PhD student at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). I received my Electronic Engineer degree at Facultad de Ingeniería (Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina).
I have interests on speech synthesis and recognition. My current work is about prosody: analysis, synthesis and transfer. In the framework of TC-STAR I'm devoted to the development of algorithms to model prosody for speech synthesis using information of the source speaker to improve its quality (naturalness and pleasantness).
Here I will be working on prominence detection and transfer for speech-to-speech translation.

Abdelkader Amraoui worked at TCTS Lab from 1989 to 1992. His work focused on using artificial neural networks for speech recognition. He mostly investigated the Kohonen Map. He is now ?.

Michel Bagein obtained a computer engineering degree from the "Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Lille" (previously EUDIL) in 1996 by sitting for evening training after 10 years spent in industry. In 1997, he joined the TCTS Lab as a researcher in the field of speech synthesis. He has been involved in several projects (LIPSS, Euler, NUMBROLA) and worked on software standardization. He was involved in the MODIVOC project.

François Bataille was TCTS Lab's System Engineer from 1995 to 1998.
He also worked on the development of prototype telephony servers and multimedia applications.
He co-founded Babel Technologies, s.a., in 1997, and is currently employed by this company..

Richard Beaufort first spent 2 months at TCTS Lab in 1999, in the framework of the interuniversity DEC2 in Language Engineering organized by UCL, FPMs, ULG, and FUNDP, for working on Learning-based Phonetization in Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS). Then, after a French DEA in Language Engineering (Paris), he came back and worked at TCTS Lab from 2000 to 2001, as a member of the TTS group, and started a PhD thesis on Finite-State Machines applied to Speech Synthesis. He was than with Multitel ASBL, where he headed the TTS group. After his PhD he is now with CENTAL, UCL.

Christophe Bourrez worked in the Patter Recognition Research Group, from 1995 to 1997.
His work was mainly on Image Analysis and Optical Character Recognition. He also had a strong interest in Software Engineering.
He is now with LEM Elsis.

Hervé Bourlard headed the Speech Recognition Research Group, from 1994 to 1997. He had previously been with Philips Research, Brussels, and had been a research group leader at Lernout and Hauspie. His work concentrated on developing the hybrid HMM/ANN and MULTI-BAND speech recognition technologies, in the context of the EC HIMARNNET, SPRACH, STRUT, THISL, and RESPITE projects. In 1997, he left TCTS Lab to become the manager of IDIAP, Martigny, Switzerland. He is also a professor at EFPL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).

Baris Bozkurt holds an electrical engineering degree(Bogazici Unv, 1997), and MSc degree (Bogazici Unv, 2000). He was a PhD student in FPMs since September 2000 (supervisor : Thierry Dutoit) and obtained his PhD degree in 2005. His research focused on signal processing algorithms for Text-to-speech synthesis. He also managed the Mbrola Project.

Leila Cheboub worked in the Speech Recognition Research Group, from 1998 to 1999. She mainly studied speaker adaptation, using HMM/ANN recognition techniques. In 1999, she joigned ?.

Florence Coulon worked in the Speech Coding Research Group, from 1998 to 1999.
She focused on JAVA implementation of speech coding algoruthms.
She is now with Europay, S.A.

Laurent Couvreur holds an Engineering degree (Ir) from Faculté Polytechnique de Mons. His research interests are statistical signal processing, audio signal processing, machine learning and software engineering, with an orientation to speech recognition.

Louis-Marie Croisez worked in the Man-Machine Interface Research Group, from 1998 to 2000.
He mostly worked on the Intelligent Telephony Server project.
He is now with ?

Johan Dalla Bona was a member of the ITS (Intelligent Telephony Services) of TCTS Lab from 1998 to 2000. .

Damien holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs since 2002. He took part in the MODIVOC project from November 2003 to June 2004. Currently, he works on the DOMINI project. His main research interests are the implementation and the filling of an Electronic Medical Record using multimodal entries combined with speech recognition.

Vincent Deffrenne holds a Human-Machine Communication and Computer Science Engineering (DESS ICHM  - France, 2001) and an European Master in Electrical and Industrial Computing Engineering (IUP Ge2i - France, 2000).
He worked with Multitel a.s.b.l. (June - December 2002) and joined the TCTS lab in January 2003.

Jorge Del Carpio worked at TCTS Lab on Peruvian Spanish TTS synthesis, from 1987 to 1992.
He graduated as a PhD from Faculté Polytechnique de Mons in 1992.
He is now a professor at University of Lima, Perou

Jonathan Demeyer holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the UCL/FSA since January 2006. He did his master's thesis in the field of signal analyis from both antennas and camera in the Tele laboratory.

He formely worked for the SYPOLE project. His research interest is analysis of vocal pathologies by speech and image processing, in the framework of the ECLIPSE project.

Olivier Deroo was a PhD Student at TCTS Lab from 1996 to 2000. His PhD work was on context-dependent modeling and data fusion applied to speech recognition using HMM/ANN hybrids.

Stéphanie DEVUYST holds a PhD in Applied Sciences from the Faculty of Engineering (FPMs), University of Mons (UMONS), since 2011. Her research deals with the EEG, EMG, and EOG processing for biomedical applications. Particularly, these are focused on the automatic analysis of sleep. Since 2005, Stéphanie is also a teaching assistant in the TCTS Lab of the FPMs. She takes part to the Circuit Theory and Signal Processing Labs and exercises.

Thomas Dubuisson holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs since June 2006. He did his master's thesis in the field of sleep disorders analysis. His research interest is analysis of vocal pathologies by speech and image processing, in the framework of the ECLIPSE project.

Geoffrey Durou worked in the Speech Recognition Research Group, from 1997 to 1999.
He mostly investigated text-independent speaker recognition, in collaboration with Ivan Magrin Chagnolleau (then at University of Houston, Texas).
He is now with ?

Anders Eckersand holds a Computer Science Engineering degree from LTH, Lund, Sweden (2000). His research interests are in automatic speech recognition, currently working on automatic transcription generation for use in speech recognition in the project MULG2P.

Silvio Ferreira holds electrical engineering degrees from both FPMs and Supélec.
His research interests concern image processing, data fusion, RF-ID and CEP technologies. He has been working in the following projects : INITIATIVE project of Region Wallonne SYPOLE , WIST project of Region Wallonne MAIS and recent First Spin-Off project of Region Wallonne CEXTRA.

Vincent Fontaine worked in the Speech Recognition Research Group, from 1992 to 1998. He mainly studied front-end analysis of speech, and took part in the EC HIMARNNET, SPRACH and STRUT projects. He also worked on software engineering problems, and co-designed the Object Oriented Block Processing model. In 1997, he co-founded Babel Technologies, s.a, where he now is the CEO.

François Fustin was a member of the ITS (Intelligent Telephony Services) of TCTS Lab from 1998 to 2000. .

Vincent Gaudissart holds an electrical engineering from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) since june 2003. His research interests concern image processing on embedded systems. He works currently in the Image Processing Group on the Sypole project. His main aim is to provide a text reading assistant easy to use for blind people and adapted to the PDA (handheld computers) constraints.

Franck Gaultier holds a PhD degree on Coordination, Middleware and Multi-Agent Systems (école des Mines de Saint-Etienne, 2004). He is currently working on the middleware aspects of the F3M project.

Ann Gilman worked in the Speech Synthesis Research Group, from 1997 to 1998. She worked on various NLP tasks, in connecton with the Festival TTS engine.

Julien Hamaide graduated from FPMs in 2003. His Master's thesis was on hiding symbolic information in music, using spread spectrum coding and psychoacoustics.
He worked on medical imaging and video processing until 2005. He is now with ACIC s.a., a Multitel spin-off.

Sarah Houard worked in the Speech Coding Research Group, from 1998 to 1999.
She focused on Interpolation Techniques and Music Coding.
She is now with Belgacom.

Laurent Hubaut worked in the Speech Coding Research Group, from 1997 to 1999.
He focused on Speech and Music Coding and co-designed the TCTS Coding Toolkit.
He is now with Babel Technologies, s.a.

Matthieu holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the FPMs since June 2005. He did his master's thesis in the Image Coding Group of Linköping Institute of Technology in Sweden (supervisor : Jörgen Ahlberg). He worked in the ASR group and on the IRMA project.

He Jun was a post-graduate student at TCTS Lab from 1990 to 1993, where she worked on continuous speech recognition. After her PhD graduation, she went to Canada with her husband (Gao Yang).

Flavien holds an Optronics Engineering degree from ENSSAT in France (Brittany) since 2001. He takes part to the project LASEF since september 2004. His main research interests are the development of high power narrow linewidth fiber laser and prototyping development.

Fabrice Malfrere worked in the Speech Synthesis Research Group, from 1996 to 1999.
He mostly worked on the intonation modeling and synthesis and designed the copus based intonation module of the EULER TTS system.
He is now with Babel Technologies, s.a.

Céline MANCAS-THILLOU holds a PhD in Applied Sciences (FPMs, 2006) and two Master degrees, in Audiovisual Systems and Networks Engineering (ESIGETEL, 2002) and in Applied Sciences (FPMs, 2004). She is working with the TCTS Lab since January 2003 and is collaborating with the research center Multitel. Her research deals with text detection, extraction, segmentation and degraded character recognition, first in SYPOLE project and now in several projects, among RECITE. She has been a visiting PhD student at the University of Bristol for 3 months in 2005 to work on Super Resolution Text for an embedded application. She is also a member of the network of excellence Similar and OpenInterface Foundation. Nowadays Céline works in the Administration division of research and technology transfer of the University of Mons.

Bengi Pasi worked at TCTS Lab from 1986 to 1995. He obtained a PhD in 1991, on the estimation of fundamental frequency in speech. He is now a professor at University of Kinshasa, Congo.

Erhan Mengusoglu holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering (1995) and a M.S. degree (1999) from Hacettepe University, Turkey. He obtained his PhD at FPMs in may 2004. He's thesis work consisted in exploring different kind of confidence measures that can be applied to speech and speaker recognition. Currently he is an assistant at the Hacettepe University, Turkey.

Daniel Migeotte worked in the L&H speech coding group hosted at TCTS Lab from 1992 to 1994.
He was with Lernout and Hauspie, until 2001, and recently joigned Babel Technologies, s.a. .

Dr. J. Anderson Mills III holds a Computer Engineering degree (1992) from Clemson University (USA). He received his master's degree (1997, supervisor: Donald E. Thompson) from The Pennsylvania State University (USA) in Acoustics with a thesis on noise prediction for jet engines. He received a doctorate (2008, supervisor: Elmer L. Hixson) from The University of Texas (USA) in Electrical Engineering with a dissertation on algorithmic analysis of electroacoustic music using psychoacoustic models. Dr. Mills joined Numediart at the TCTS lab in 2009 with current interests in sound analysis, computer music, social DSP, dance analysis, and musician-instrument interaction.

Vincent Pagel worked in the Speech Synthesis Research Group, from 1996 to 2000.
As our "MBROLA officer", he worked on the MBROLA algorithm (he co-owns the patent on it) and managed the creation of MBROLA databases. He also initiated the MBRDICO Project for multilingual corpus-based phonetization.
He co-founded Babel Technologies, s.a., in 1997.
He is now with Babel Technologies, s.a.

Cécile Picard obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science at INRIA, France, in the REVES team in December 2009. Her Ph.D. research focused on real-time sound rendering for virtual reality. After receiving her diploma in Mechanical Engineering with specialization in Acoustics in 2005 at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC), France, she continued in the domain of sound and obtained in 2006 a Msc. in Sound and Vibrations at the Chalmers University in Goteborg, Sweden.

Nicolas Pierret worked in the Speech Coding Research Group, from 1996 to 1998.
His work was mainly on speech coding using CELP techniques. He was the main designer of the Speech Coding Toolkit. He also worked on MBROLA database coding (he co-owns the MBROLA patent)
He is now an independent consultant.

Olivier Pietquin obtained an Electrical Engineering degree from FPMs in june 1999. He joined the TCTS Lab. in september 1999 and was firstly involved in the THISL project. In 2001, he has been a visiting researcher at the SPandH Lab. of the University of Sheffield (UK). He obtained his PhD Thesis on speech enabled interfaces with the highest honours in april 2004. Than he focused his researches on spoken dialogue systems and dialogue strategy learning to the Philips Labs. Now he is a Professor in the STS team of the Supelec high school, France.

Frédéric Quesne was a research assistant at TCTS Lab from 1990 to 1992. He worked mostly on speaker recognition, using Dynamic Time Warping techniques. He is now working as a computer scientist for a governmental agency.

Jean-François Rasaminjanahary worked in the Speech Coding Research Group, from 1985 to 1992.
He initiated work on LPC analysis and synthesis and the speech coding group.
He is now with Lernout and Hauspie.

Jean-Pierre Renard worked at TCTS Lab from 1987 to 1992. He obtained his PhD in 1992, in the field of perceptual audio coding. In 1993, he joigned Alcatel-ETCA, Charleroi, Belgium, where is now is a manager in the Operations Network and Services Telecommunications Dept.

Pascal Repjuk worked in the L&H speech coding group hosted at TCTS Lab from 1992 to 1994.
His work focused on porting speech coding algorithms to DSPs.
In 1994 he created CAPFLOW s.a., a company aimed at designing soft- and hardware for artificial vision. He currently is the CEO of this company.

Xavier Ricco was part of the TCTS Lab TTS Group from August 2000 to June 2001. He mainly worked for the development of the W, HOOK, FASTY and EULER projects. He is currently a member of the R&D staff at MULTITEL ASBL and works on the FASTY IST project.

Christophe Ris holds an electrical engineering from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (1993). From 1993 to 2010, he has been a researcher in the speech processing lab of FPMs in the field of automatic speech recognition.

My previous field of research was devoted to laser physics and dynamics of nonlinear systems. I have carried my investigations mainly at the Telecom. Dept. of F.P.Ms, but also during research stays at the University of Maryland and the University of Lille. I have also taught optoelectronics, laser technologies and nonlinear optics at the University of Rennes.
Since May 2006, I am working at the T.C.T.S. laboratory in the frame of a project named TANIA funded by the Walloon region. This project mixes biomedical signal processing, theory of control and data mining. We collaborate with the Machine Learning Group of the Free University of Brussels and several Belgian University Hospitals (Erasme Hospital - Free University of Brussels, CHU of Liège University, CHU Saint Luc - UCL) and MEXYS S.A.

Alain Ruelle was part of the TCTS Lab TTS Group from 1996 to 2000. His programming expertise was a major advantage for the development of the MBROLA, MBROLIGN, and EULER projects. He is currently a member of the R&D staff of the TTS group at MULTITEL ASBL .

Raphael Sebbe holds electrical engineering degrees from both FPMs and Supélec. Raphael has worked on speech and image-related technologies and software development.
His research interests are signal and, in particular, image processing. While in TCTS Lab. Raphael obtained a PhD in the field of medical image processing.

Amir Sepehri worked at TCTS Lab from 1987 to 1992, where he obtained a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, in the area of digital filtering. He is now a professor at University of Tehran, Iran.

François holds electrical engineering degrees from both FPMs and Supélec since 2003. His Master's thesis concerned a denoising technique in the automatic speech recognition field. François worked on voice quality effects, in the VOQUAL Research Group, with specific attention to source-tract separation, and speech dynamics.

Xavier works with the MULTITEL Text-To-Speech research group. He focuses on the development on corpus-based speech synthesis techniques.

Nawfal Tounsi worked in the Speech Synthesis Research Group, from 1998 to 2000.
He mostly worked on the W project, and designed the EULER Arabic TTS system.
He is now with Babel Technologies, s.a.

Devrim Unay holds an electrical and electronics engineering degree (1999) and a master of science degree in biomedical engineering (2001) both from Bogazici University, Turkey. He obtained his PhD degree from FPMs in June 2006 by the work "Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Techniques for Quality Grading of Apple Fruits" performed under the supervision of B. Gosselin.
His research interests are image processing, pattern recognition and classification. He worked in the MAIS project, while he was engaged to the CAPA project previously.

Olivier van der Vrecken headed the Speech Coding Research Group, from 1996 to 2000.
He worked on Speech and Music Coding and co-designed the TCTS Coding Toolkit.
He co-founded Babel Technologies, s.a., and was its president until 2000.
He is now with Siemens-ATEA, s.a.

Li Ping Wang was a post-graduate student at TCTS Lab from 1989 to 1993, where she worked on speaker-dependent speech recognition.
She is now a professor at ISIEM, Mons, Belgium.

Bruno Wéry worked worked in the SAIT Electonics speech coding group hosted at TCTS Lab from 1988 to 1992.
He implemented Multi-Band speech analysis and synthesis systems, and ported them on TI DSPs.
He is now with ?.

Alfred Wiesen worked in the L&H speech coding group hosted at TCTS Lab from 1992 to 1994.
He is now with Lernout and Hauspie, managing the Belgian branch of the SDK group, responsible for developing ASR and TTS Software Development Kits for the multimedia and telephony markets.

Geoffrey Wilfart obtained a Communication Systems engineering degree from ENSTBr (Ecole Nationale Supérieures de Télécommunications de Bretagne, Brest, France) and from Eurecom Institute (Sophia Antipolis, France), in 2000. He has worked on several projects for Lernout & Hauspie and Multitel ASBL before joining the TCTS Lab in february 2003.

Pascale holds an electrical engineering degree from FPMs since june 2004. She worked on the project F3M which aims to improve the workflow in industrial maintenance by equiping technicians with a mutimodal wearable system allowing them to access maintenance information using speech and/or other modalities.

D. Wynsberghe takes part to the Circuit Theory and Signal Processing Labs and exercises. She is also responsible for the e-learning activities of the lab.
Her research interest is in speech analysis and synthesis, and most particularly in prosody perception.

Gao Yang was a post-graduate student at TCTS Lab from 1989 to 1993, with a research grant from Lernout and Hauspie. He mostly worked on CELP-based speech coding. After his PhD graduation, we went to Canada to continue his research under the leading of Prof. Cupperman.
He is now in California, working for an American speech company.

Georges Zanellato worked at TCTS Lab from 1986 to 1992. He obtained a PhD in 1990, in the field of speech recognition. In 1992, he joigned Analog Devices, Paris. He later came back to Belgium and created the Speech Coding Group at Lernout and Hauspie, where he occupied several managing positions.

Laurent Zanoni worked in the Speech Recognition Research Group, from 1996 to 1998. He specialized in developing robust code for Windows-based ASR systems, and quickly became a reference developer in the group, and in the whole lab. In 1998, he joinged Babel Technologies, s.a, where he now is a senior developer.