Francesc Alías Pujol falias@salle.url.edu

I'm a member of the Department of Media Technology at La Salle (Ramon Llull University)

I was born in Tordera, a small town of Catalonia (Spain).

Research areas

I'm currently working on unit selection Text-to-Speech (TTS) synthesis in Catalan and Castilian Spanish, focused on cost function weight tuning and multi-domain Text-to-Speech synthesis. Some of the areas I'm also interested in are the following:

• Interactive Genetic Algorithms
• Automatic Text Classification and Clustering
• Emotion identification from text
• Articulatory speech synthesis
• Audiovisual Synthesis
• Speech Anotation Tools
• Speech Recognition
• Robust multimedia clustering
• New Methodologies of Teaching

Associations

• Spanish Thematic Network on Speech Technology (RTTH)
• International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)
• ISCA Speech Synthesis Special Interest Group (SynSIG)
• ISCA Special Interest Group on Iberian Languages (SIG-IL)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Spanish section of Networked and Electronic Media platform (eNEM)