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Supervised theses

Ph.D. Theses

  • If you are interested in undertaking a PhD thesis related to speech or audio signal processing, just drop me an email!
Current students
  • Luis Joglar Ongay. Topic:"Analysis of expressive speech applied to numerical voice simulation" (from January 2023).
Former students
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Xavier Valero González. Title:" Perceptually-based Signal Features for Environmental Sound Classification" . Thesis proposal dissertation (ABD): June 8, 2010. PhD defense: Februray 13, 2013.
  • 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. [ppt] [TDX]
  • Alexandre Trilla Castelló. Title:"Natural language processing applied to speech technologies" . Thesis proposal dissertation (ABD): June 8, 2010.
  • 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). [TDX]
PhD Theses Committees
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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)

  • "Speech features analysis for stress detection" , Gemma Frigola Blàzquez (October 2022).

  • "Technological and business analysis of stress detection based on voice analysis using a mobile application" , Clara Vila Brustenga (October 2022).

  • "Deep learning applied to acoustic events recognition" , Xavier Armenteras Bosom (July 2018).

  • "Prosodic and spectral analysis of speech transformed to enhance its intelligibility in noisy environments" , Jordi Masip Font (November 2014).

  • "Intonation and voice quality modelling of storytelling narrative situations" , Raúl Montaño Aparicio (November 2012).

  • "NER-based detection of characters in tales" , Isaac Lozano Martín (November 2012).

  • "Prosodic transformation of neutral synthetic speech to expressive storytelling speaking style" , Josep Ferrer Rafart (Februrary 2012).

  • "Analysis and modeling of a storyteller: narrative situations and emotions in the characters" , Raúl Montaño Aparicio (November 2011).

  • "Singing voice synthesis from HMM-based speaking voices" , Marc Freixes Guerreiro (November 2011).

  • "A signing speech synthesis system based on HNM with MIDI input" , Ester Cierco Molins (November 2009).

  • "Articulatory synthesis of vowels by means of finite differences" , Marc Arnela Coll (November 2009) (co-supervised with Dr. Oriol Guasch)

  • "Neural Networks for automatic environmental sound source recognition" , Xavier Valero González (March 2009).

  • "Pattern recognition techniques for noise source identification and separation" , Xavier Valero González (February 2009).

  • "ELENA: E-Learning Environment with Natural language-based Assessment" , David García Solórzano (November 2008).

  • "MAGNUS: Mouse Advanced GNU Speech" , Alexandre Trilla Castelló (November 2008).(see the demos section)

  • "A comparison between measured and synthesized HRTF's" , Matthias Eibel (October 2008).

  • "Analysis of objective measures for estimating speech discontinuities" , Manuel Pablo Triviño (November 2007).

  • "Emotion identification from text" , David García Solórzano (July 2007).

  • "Fatigue and ambiguity reduction for speech synthesis subjective weight tuning" , Lluís Formiga Fanals (2005).

  • "Text categorization for optimizing text-to-speech synthesis" , Pere Barnola Augé (2004).

Bachelor of Sciencie (BSc)

  • "Natural language processing system: A medical chatbot application" , Daniel Orias (Juliy 2020).

  • "Prosodic and spectral analysis of speech with Lombard effect" , Jordi Masip Font (November 2012).

  • "HNM-based voice transformation for synthesizing the Lombard effect" , Eduard Saborit Juberias (November 2010).

  • "Analysis on the use of speech synthesis technology in the media in Catalonia" , Anna Torrens González (November 2010).

  • "Automatic pitch marking system on peaks or valleys" , Natàlia Munné Garcia (November 2009).

  • "Subjective evaluation of acoustic distances based on formants" , Cristina González Lindes (November 2009).

  • "Design and implementation of a tool for teaching speech recognition" , Ester Nieto Bou (November 2009).

  • "Analysis and improvement of a text classifier for multi-domain text-to-speech synthesis" , Isaac Lozano Martín (November 2009).

  • "Analysis of speech corpora oriented to storytelling speech synthesis" , Raúl Montaño Aparicio (November 2009).

  • "Personalized music classification according to emotional feeling" , Lidia San Emeterio (November 2008). [link]

  • "Towards a pocket TTS: reproducing Catalan transcribed speech sounds" , Jaume Torras (December 2007).

  • "Set of tools applied to the teaching of the course entitled Speech Recognition and Synthesis" , Anna Navarro (July 2007).

  • Text-to-speech synthesis for multimedia applications, incorporating text labelling and voice generation tools , David García Solórzano (2005).

  • "Comparative of objective measures for evaluating speech discontinuities in text-to-speech systems" , Manuel Pablo Triviño (July 2004).

  • "Weight tuning for speech synthesis based on interactive genetic algorithms" , Lluís Formiga Fanals (2003) (co-supervised with Dr. Xavier Llorà).

  • "Towards the generation of a new voice in Catalan using the Festival Speech Synthesis System" , Jordi Domínguez Fuster (2003).

  • "Integration of a Catalan text-to-speech system under SAPI 5.1" , Maria Encarnación Navarro (2002).

  • "Interactive tool for teaching speech coding systems" , Josep Creus Navarro (2001).