Christophe d'Alessandro

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LAM

Christophe d’Alessandro is a researcher and musician, director of research at the CNRS, head of the Lutheries-Acoustique-Musique team at Institut Jean Le Rond d´Alembert Institute (UMR CNRS 7190) and titular organist of the church Sainte-Élisabeth in Paris. Trained in pure mathematics and music, he completed his PhD in computer science at Sorbonne Université and joined the CNRS in 1989. He published over 250 articles in journals, conference proceedings or book chapters, supervised 25 doctorates and was invited as visiting researcher in Canada, India, Japan, Argentina. His research interests include speech and voice sciences, computer music, music acoustics and organology. Trained in harpsichord, organ, and composition, he was appointed organist of Sainte-Élisabeth in 1987 and recorded for disk, radio and television programs. His musical research approach combines improvisation, composition and creation of instruments, particularly in the fields of organ, live electronics, and performative voice synthesis.

Grégoire Locqueville

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PhD candidate in computer music, I work on gesture-controlled voice synthesis.

Argan Verrier

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As an engineer in the LAM team, I work on voice synthesis and its control with HMI.

Luc Ardaillon

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Luc Ardaillon obtained a PhD at IRCAM, in the analysis/synthesis team, on the subject of «Synthesis and expressive transformation of singing voice», followed by post-docs at IRCAM and CNRS on speech analysis (f0 and GCI) and roughness transformations.

In the framework of the Gepeto project, he is now working as a post-doc at GIPSA-Lab on real-time whisper-to-speech transformation and gestural control of intonation for voice rehabilitation purposes.

Olivier Perrotin

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Olivier Perrotin is a CNRS tenure researcher at GIPSA-lab since 2018, and holds a PhD in computer science from Université Paris-Saclay (2015). His main research interests include human-computer interaction, expressive speech and singing synthesis, voice analysis, and voice reconstruction. In particular, during his PhD at LIMSI, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay (2012-2015), he contributed to the development of Cantor Digitalis, an open source real-time singing synthesiser controlled with hand gestures, which won the first prize of the International Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. He then worked on speech transformation and voice reconstruction as a research assistant at LIMSI, CNRS (2016) and University of Kent (2018-2018), respectively. Since his arrival at GIPSA-lab, his research more generally focus on controllable expressive speech synthesis systems by addressing the following questions: 1) how to encode a voice signal into an intuitive and controllable space of expressive parameters? 2) how to interact in real-time with this control space?

Claire Pillot-Loiseau

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Lecturer since October 2008 (French as a Foreign Language in didactics and in language laboratories, speech therapy, phonetics in bachelor's and master's degrees, phonetics and singing in master's degrees) and speech therapist since 1992, my research topics concern oral French in its various production variants, and the relationship between voice and speech.

It is at first on the spoken and sung voices that my first researches were focused on :

• Vocal efficiency, in connection with my rehabilitation practice with patients suffering from vocal problems, and my personal singing practice
• The different vocal techniques and their links with the typology of languages. This research is currently being pursued in connection with the seminar "Languages, singing and music" for which I am responsible.
• The relationship between speech and music.

Little by little, I was also asked to take care of people with speech problems, especially foreign actors from the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique. This pedagogical activity with foreign learners, which currently concerns half of my service within the University Diploma of Phonetics Applied to the French Language, of which I am the pedagogical director, has led me to undertake new research in the field of phonetics of French as a Foreign Language (FLE): creation of recording corpora of foreign learners of FLE using the non-invasive instrumentation available at the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory; study of learners' segmental and suprasegmental deviations; contribution of lingual ultrasound in the teaching of vowel oppositions in FLE; vocal qualities and languages.

My research also concerns pathological speech and voice in relation to the teaching of clinical phonetics that I provide to speech therapy students.

Lise Crevier-Buchman

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Lise Crevier Buchman, MD, PhD, HDR, is a Senior Research Fellow, National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS), responsible of the Clinical Phonetics department at the Phonetics and Phonological Lab (LPP-CNRS-UMR7018), Paris3-Sorbonne University and she is also Otorhinolaryngologiste, Phoniatrician, Head of the Voice, Speech, and Swallowing Lab in the Head & Neck Surgery department of Foch hospital, UVSQ University, Paris, France.

Former president, and then General Secretary of the French national Phoniatrics Society (2006-2015), she is the President of the scientific council for the Phoniatrics Committee of the ELS (European Laryngological Societies).

In the research field, she is a scientific leader in French and European Research Projects. She participates in the development of a multi-sensor experimental physiologic platform. The aim is to better understand speech production in different languages and to explore some vocal techniques such as Mongolian singing and Human Beatbox. She lectures at the medical university in Paris and supervise Masters and PhD students.

In the clinical field, her experience and professional achievement have made her an expert in the assessment and management of disordered voice and speech from dysphonia to dysarthria as well as adult swallowing disorders.

Xiao Xiao

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Nicolas Audibert

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Nicolas Audibert is an Associate Professor in phonetics at University Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France), and a member of the Phonetics and Phonology Laboratory (UMR7018 CNRS/Sorbonne Nouvelle). He’s also in charge of the Master’s degree in Phonetics and Phonology. His research focus on various factors of variation in voice and speech both at the segmental and prosodic level, as a function of age, individual specificities, affects or pathology.