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TCTS Lab Staff
 
 



Benjamin Picart

[Groups] [Speech Synthesis Demos] [Publications]

Researcher, PhD Student  

Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs) 
Department of Electrical Engineering, TCTS Lab  
31, Boulevard Dolez  
B-7000 Mons (Belgium)  

phone: +32 65 37 47 46  
fax: +32 65 374729  
 benjamin.picart


Benjamin Picart graduated as an electrical engineer (Telecoms & Multimedia) from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (FPMs), Belgium, in 2009. He performed his Master's Thesis within Idiap (Switzerland) in the field of Automatic Speech Recognition (February - June 2009). His research interests focus on signal processing theory and its applications to speech processing.
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Speech Synthesis Demos:

Audio examples of HMM-based expressive speech synthesis based on the degree of articulation can be heard on this web page.

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Publications :

Regular Papers in Journals

2010
J. URBAIN, R. NIEWIADOMSKI, E. BEVACQUA, T. DUTOIT, A. MOINET, C. PELACHAUD, B. PICART, J. TILMANNE, J. WAGNER, 2010, "AVLaughterCycle - Enabling a virtual agent to join in laughing with a conversational partner using a similarity-driven audiovisual laughter animation", Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI), Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 47-58, DOI: 10.1007/s12193-010-0053-1.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

2011
B. PICART, T. DRUGMAN, T. DUTOIT, 2011, "Continuous Control of the Degree of Articulation in HMM-based Speech Synthesis", Proceedings of Interspeech 2011, pp. 1797-1800, August 27-31, Florence, Italy.
B. PICART, T. DRUGMAN, T. DUTOIT, 2011, "Perceptual Effects of the Degree of Articulation in HMM-based Speech Synthesis", Proceedings of the Non-Linear Speech Processing International Workshop (NOLISP), pp. 177-182, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, November 7-9.
2010
B. PICART, T. DRUGMAN, T. DUTOIT, 2010, "Analysis and Synthesis of Hypo and Hyperarticulated Speech", Proceedings of the Speech Synthesis Workshop 7 (SSW7), pp. 270-275, 22nd - 24th of September 2010, NICT/ATR, Kyoto, Japan.
A. ASAEI, B. PICART, H. BOURLARD, 2010, "Analysis of Phone Posterior Feature Space Exploiting Class-Specific Sparsity and MLP-based Similarity Measure", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2010), pp. 4886-4889, 14th - 19th of March 2010, Dallas, Texas, USA.
J. URBAIN, E. BEVACQUA, T. DUTOIT, A. MOINET, R. NIEWIADOMSKI, C. PELACHAUD, B. PICART, J. TILMANNE, J. WAGNER, 2010, "La base de données AVLaughterCycle", Actes des 28emes Journées d'Etude sur la Parole (JEP 2010), pages 61-64, 25-28 mai, 2010, Mons, Belgique.
J. URBAIN, E. BEVACQUA, T. DUTOIT, A. MOINET, R. NIEWIADOMSKI, C. PELACHAUD, B. PICART, J. TILMANNE, J. WAGNER, 2010, "The AVLaughterCycle Database", Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), pp. 2996-3001, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta.
2009
J. URBAIN, E. BEVACQUA, T. DUTOIT, A. MOINET, R. NIEWIADOMSKI, C. PELACHAUD, B. PICART, J. TILMANNE, J. WAGNER, 2009, "AVLaughterCycle: An audiovisual laughing machine", Proceedings of the 5th International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces - eNTERFACE'09, pp. 79-87, July 13th - August 7th.

Technical Reports

2011
T. DUTOIT, M. ASTRINAKI, O. BABACAN, N. D'ALESSANDRO, B. PICART, 2011, "pHTS for Max/MSP: A Stream­ing Archi­tec­ture for Sta­tis­ti­cal Para­met­ric Speech Syn­the­sis", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 4, n° 1, pp. 7-11, March 2011.
2009
J. URBAIN, E. BEVACQUA, T. DUTOIT, A. MOINET, R. NIEWIADOMSKI, C. PELACHAUD, B. PICART, J. TILMANNE, J. WAGNER, 2009, "AVLaughterCycle: An audiovisual laughing machine", QPSR of the numediart research program, volume 2, n° 3, pp. 97-104, September 2009.

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