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Francesc Alías Pujol
francesc.alias [at] salle.url.edu
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Supervised theses
Ph.D. Theses
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If you are interested in undertaking a PhD thesis related to speech or audio signal processing, just drop me an email!
Current students
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Luis Joglar Ongay. Topic:"Analysis of expressive speech applied to numerical voice simulation"
(from January 2023).
Former students
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Ferran Orga Vidal (2017 AGAUR FI-DGR Grant). Title:"Characterization of the acoustic events impact on equivalent sound levels and on citizens' perception for dynamic noise maps generation"
(co-supervised with Dr. Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès). PhD defense: May 25, 2022.
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Raúl Montaño Aparicio (2013 AGAUR FI-DGR Grant). Title:"Prosodic and Voice Quality cross-language Analysis of Storytelling Expressive Categories oriented to Text-to-Speech synthesis"
. PhD defense: July 15, 2016.
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Xavier Valero González. Title:" Perceptually-based Signal Features for Environmental Sound Classification"
. Thesis proposal dissertation (ABD): June 8, 2010. PhD defense: Februray 13, 2013.
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Lluís Formiga Fanals. Title"Perceptual optimization of speech synthesis systems based on unit selection through active interactive genetic algorithms"
. Thesis proposal dissertation (ABD): December 19, 2007.
PhD defense: April 27, 2011.
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Alexandre Trilla Castelló. Title:"Natural language processing applied to speech technologies"
. Thesis proposal dissertation (ABD): June 8, 2010.
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José Antonio Montero Morales. Title: "Towards a teaching methodology for in-person class engineering students based on active learning, compatible with the European Higher Education Area requirements"
. PhD defense: February 22, 2008 (co-supervised with Dr. Joan Vicenç Gómez from UPC).
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PhD Theses Committees
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Carlos Andrés Ramos (ETSII-UPM). Title:"Exploración de las condiciones del pavimiento a partir de la señal acústica producida por un vehículo circulando" ( in Spanish )
supervised by Dr. César Asensio (ETSII-UPM). PhD defense: December 12, 2021.
Panel: Dr. Francesc Alías (La Salle-URL) as President, Dr. Ignacio Pavón (UPM), Dr. Manuel Angel Sobreira (UVigo), Dr. Juan Manuel López Navarro (UPM), and Dra. Nuria Campillo Davo (UHM).
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Luis Gascó Sánchez (ETSII-UPM). Title:"Explotación de las TICs en la gestión del ruido, y su influencia sobre la percepción ciudadana del ruido" ( in Spanish )
co-supervised by Dr. César Asensio and Dr. Guillermo de Arcas (ETSII-UPM). PhD defense: December 17, 2019.
Panel: Dr. Antonio Pedrero (UPM) as President, Dr. Ignacio Pavón (UPM), Dr. Francesco Aletta (UCL), Dr. Jordi Romeu (UPC) and Dr. Francesc Alías (La Salle-URL).
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Alp Öktem (UPF). Title:"Incorporating Prosody into Neural Speech Processing Pipelines"
co-supervised by Dr. Mieria Farrús (UPF) and Dr. Antonio Bonafonte (UPC). PhD defense: October 5, 2015.
Panel: Dr. David Escudero Mancevo (UVA) as President, Dr. Jordi Adell (Verbio Technologies) and Dr. Francesc Alías (La Salle-URL).
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Adso Fernández Baena (La Salle-URL). Title:"Animation and Interaction of Responsive, Expressive and Tangible 3D Virtual Characters"
supervised by Dr. David Miralles Esteban (La Salle-URL) ). PhD defense: February 25, 2015.
Panel: Dr. Josep Blat Gimeno (UPF) as President, Dr. Antonio Susín (UPC) and Dr. Francesc Alías (La Salle-URL).
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Rubén Nicolàs Sans (La Salle-URL). Title:"Ajuda al Diagnòstic de Càncer de Melanoma amb Raonament Analògic Multietiqueta" ( in Catalan)
co-supervised by Dr. Elisabet Golobardes Rib&eactue; and Dr. Albert Fornells Herrera (La Salle-URL) ). PhD defense: March 21, 2014.
Panel: Dr. Eva Armengol Voltas (CSIC), Dr. Jordi Freixenent Bosch (UdG) and Dr. Esther Bernardó Mansilla (UPF) - who was my replacement due to indisposition.
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Pablo Daniel Agüero (UPC). Title:"Síntesis de voz aplicado a la traducción voz a voz" ( in Spanish)
supervised by Dr. Antonio Bonafonte C&aactue;vez (UPC) ). PhD defense: October 23, 2012.
Panel: Dr. Asunción Moreno (UPC) as President, Dr. David Escudero Mancebo (UVA), Dr. Francesc Alías (La Salle-URL).
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Carlos Monzo Sánchez (La Salle-URL). Title:"Modelado de la cualidad de la voz para la síntesis del habla expresiva" ( in Spanish)
co-supervised by Dr. Joan Claudi Socoró Carrié and Dr. Ignasi Iriondo Sanz (La Salle-URL) ). PhD defense: July 14, 2010.
Panel: Dr. Àngel Rodríguez (UAB) as President, Dr. José A. Morán (UOC), Dr. Juan Manuel Montero (UPM), Juan Ignacio Godino (UPM) and Dr. Francesc Alías (La Salle-URL).
Master of Science (MSc)
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"Speech features analysis for stress detection"
, Gemma Frigola Blàzquez (October 2022).
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"Technological and business analysis of stress detection based on voice analysis using a mobile application"
, Clara Vila Brustenga (October 2022).
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"Deep learning applied to acoustic events recognition"
, Xavier Armenteras Bosom (July 2018).
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"Prosodic and spectral analysis of speech transformed to enhance its intelligibility in noisy environments"
, Jordi Masip Font (November 2014).
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"Intonation and voice quality modelling of storytelling narrative situations"
, Raúl Montaño Aparicio (November 2012).
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"NER-based detection of characters in tales"
, Isaac Lozano Martín (November 2012).
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"Prosodic transformation of neutral synthetic speech to expressive storytelling speaking style"
, Josep Ferrer Rafart (Februrary 2012).
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"Analysis and modeling of a storyteller: narrative situations and emotions in the characters"
, Raúl Montaño Aparicio (November 2011).
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"Singing voice synthesis from HMM-based speaking voices"
, Marc Freixes Guerreiro (November 2011).
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"A signing speech synthesis system based on HNM with MIDI input"
, Ester Cierco Molins (November 2009).
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"Articulatory synthesis of vowels by means of finite differences"
, Marc Arnela Coll (November 2009) (co-supervised with Dr. Oriol Guasch)
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"Neural Networks for automatic environmental sound source recognition"
, Xavier Valero González (March 2009).
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"Pattern recognition techniques for noise source identification and separation"
, Xavier Valero González (February 2009).
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"ELENA: E-Learning Environment with Natural language-based Assessment"
, David García Solórzano (November 2008).
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"MAGNUS: Mouse Advanced GNU Speech"
, Alexandre Trilla Castelló (November 2008).(see the demos section)
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"A comparison between measured and synthesized HRTF's"
, Matthias Eibel (October 2008).
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"Analysis of objective measures for estimating speech discontinuities"
, Manuel Pablo Triviño (November 2007).
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"Emotion identification from text"
, David García Solórzano (July 2007).
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"Fatigue and ambiguity reduction for speech synthesis subjective weight tuning"
, Lluís Formiga Fanals (2005).
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"Text categorization for optimizing text-to-speech synthesis"
, Pere Barnola Augé (2004).
Bachelor of Sciencie (BSc)
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"Natural language processing system: A medical chatbot application"
, Daniel Orias (Juliy 2020).
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"Prosodic and spectral analysis of speech with Lombard effect"
, Jordi Masip Font (November 2012).
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"HNM-based voice transformation for synthesizing the Lombard effect"
, Eduard Saborit Juberias (November 2010).
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"Analysis on the use of speech synthesis technology in the media in Catalonia"
, Anna Torrens González (November 2010).
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"Automatic pitch marking system on peaks or valleys"
, Natàlia Munné Garcia (November 2009).
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"Subjective evaluation of acoustic distances based on formants"
, Cristina González Lindes (November 2009).
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"Design and implementation of a tool for teaching speech recognition"
, Ester Nieto Bou (November 2009).
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"Analysis and improvement of a text classifier for multi-domain text-to-speech synthesis"
, Isaac Lozano Martín (November 2009).
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"Analysis of speech corpora oriented to storytelling speech synthesis"
, Raúl Montaño Aparicio (November 2009).
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"Personalized music classification according to emotional feeling"
, Lidia San Emeterio (November 2008). [link]
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"Towards a pocket TTS: reproducing Catalan transcribed speech sounds"
, Jaume Torras (December 2007).
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"Set of tools applied to the teaching of the course entitled Speech Recognition and Synthesis"
, Anna Navarro (July 2007).
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Text-to-speech synthesis for multimedia applications, incorporating text
labelling and voice generation tools , David García Solórzano (2005).
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"Comparative of objective measures for evaluating speech discontinuities in text-to-speech systems"
, Manuel Pablo Triviño (July 2004).
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"Weight tuning for speech synthesis based on interactive genetic algorithms"
, Lluís Formiga Fanals (2003) (co-supervised with Dr. Xavier Llorà).
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"Towards the generation of a new voice in Catalan using the Festival Speech Synthesis System"
, Jordi Domínguez Fuster (2003).
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"Integration of a Catalan text-to-speech system under SAPI 5.1"
, Maria Encarnación Navarro (2002).
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"Interactive tool for teaching speech coding systems"
, Josep Creus Navarro (2001).
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