tel :+32 65 374772 

deketelaere

tel :+32-65-374759 

aurelien.dor

Emmanuel Druet holds an electromechanical degree from University of Liège (ULG, Belgium) since 2002. He has an experience in financial software (2002-2004) and works for TCTS since march 2004. His research interests are signal processing, data fusion and safety. He is working on the PIST project dealing with the development of sensor fusion systems for self-positioning of vehicles.

tel :+3265374791 

druetemm

tel :071/92.14.57 

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.

tel :+32 65 374764 

rasaminjanahary

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.

tel :+32 64 276509 (or 7271) 

todor.todoroff

Christian Wellekens received the degree of Ingénieur Civil Electricien Mécanicien from the University of Louvain, Belgium in 1965 and the Ph.D. from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland in 1974. In September 1992, he joined Institut Eurécom as a full Professor and headed the Multimedia Communications Department until October 1998. Christian Wellekens is a senior member of IEEE. In January 2000, he was elected member of the board of the International Speech Communication Association

tel :+33 4 93002628 

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.

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.

tel :+32 65 374707 

beaufort

tel :+32 65 374738 

tel :+32 65 374765 

delafonteyne

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.

tel :+32 65 374766 

hannotier

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

tel :+32 65 374777 

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 .

tel :+32 65 374740 

ruelle

tel :+32 65 374185 

Jacques.Trecat