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Articles in Academic Journals (WOS-JCR)

2023
  1. Marc Freixes, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías-Pujol; "Evaluation of glottal inverse filtering techniques on OPENGLOT synthetic male and female vowels",  Applied Sciences (Special Issue "IberSPEECH 2022: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages") 13(15), 8775; doi.org/10.3390/app13158775 (MDPI), July 2023 [Link].
2022
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès; "Effects of COVID-19 lockdown in Milan urban and Rome suburban acoustic environments: Anomalous noise events and intermittency ratio",  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 151(3), pp.1676-1683; doi.org/10.1121/10.0009783, March 2022 [Link].
  1. Marc Freixes, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Contribution of Vocal Tract and Glottal Source Spectral Cues in the Generation of Acted Happy and Aggressive Spanish Vowels",  Applied Sciences (Special Issue "IberSPEECH 2020: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages"), 12(4), 2055; doi.org/10.3390/app12042055 (MPDI), Februrary 2022 [Open Access].
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías,Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès; "WASN-Based Spectro-Temporal Analysis and Clustering of Road Traffic Noise in Urban and Suburban Areas",  Applied Sciences (Special Issue "Monitoring and Prediction of Traffic Noise in Large Urban Zones"), 12(3), 981; doi.org/10.3390/app12030981 (MPDI), January 2022 [Open Access].
2020
  1. Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès; "WASN-Based Day–Night Characterization of Urban Anomalous Noise Events in Narrow and Wide Streets",  Sensors (Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications") (ISSN: 1424-8220), 20(17), 4760; doi.org/10.3390/s20174760 (MPDI), August 2020 [Open Access].
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Parallel Hierarchical Architectures for Efficient Consensus Clustering on Big Multimedia Cluster Ensembles", Information Sciences (ISSN: 0020-0255) (Elsevier), vol. 511, pp. 212-228, February 2020 [link].
  1. Francesc Alías, Ferran Orga, Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Aggregate Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on the WASN-Based Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels in Urban and Suburban Environments",  Sensors (Special Issue "Smart Wireless Acoustic Sensor Network Design for Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities") (ISSN: 1424-8220), 20(3), 609; doi.org/10.3390/s20030609 (MPDI), January 2020 [Open Access].
  1. Francesc Alías, Anonio Bonafonte, António Teixiera; "Editorial for Special Issue “IberSPEECH2018: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages”", Applied Sciences (Special Issue "IberSPEECH 2018: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages"), 10(1), 384; doi.org/10.3390/app10010384 (MPDI), January 2020 [Open access].
2019
  1. Marc Freixes, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "A Unit Selection Text-to-Speech-and-Singing Synthesis Framework from Neutral Speech: Proof of concept", EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (ISSN: 1687-4722) (Springer Open), 2019, 2019:22, doi:10.1186/s13636-019-0163-y, 16 December 2019 [Open Access].
  1. Marc Freixes, Marc Arnela, Joan Claudi Socoró Francesc Alías, Oriol Guasch; "Glottal Source Contribution to Higher Order Modes in the Finite Element Synthesis of Vowels", Applied Sciences (Special Issue "IberSPEECH 2018: Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages"), 9(21), 4535; doi.org/10.3390/app9214535 (MPDI), October 2019 [Open access].
  1. Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga, Roberto Benocci, Giovanni Zambon; "Anomalous Events Removal for Automated Traffic Noise Maps Generation",  Applied Acoustics (ISSN: 0003-682X) (Elsevier), vol. 115, pp. 183-192, August 2019 [link].
  1. Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès, Ferran Orga, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró "A WASN-Based Suburban Dataset for Anomalous Noise Event Detection on Dynamic Road-Traffic Noise Mapping",  Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220), 19(11), 2480; doi.org/10.3390/s19112480 (MPDI), May 2019 [Open Access].
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès; "Review of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities",  Journal of Sensors (ISSN: 1687-7268) (Hindawi), Volume 2019, Article ID 7634860, 13 pages, May 2019 [Open Access].
2018
  1. Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga; "Detection of Anomalous Noise Events on Low-Capacity Acoustic Nodes for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping within an Hybrid WASN",  Sensors (Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 4th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications") (ISSN: 1424-8220), 18(4), 1272; doi:10.3390/s18041272 (MPDI), April 2018 [Open Access].
  1. Ferran Orga, Francesc Alías, Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès; "On the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Urban and Suburban Environments",  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN: 1660-4601), 15(1), 13;doi:10.3390/ijerph15010013 (MPDI), January 2018 [Open Access] (Available online from December 2017, 23).
2017
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès; "An Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Environments",  Sensors (Special Issue "Sensor Networks for Smart Roads") (ISSN: 1424-8220), 17(10), 2323; doi:10.3390/s17102323 (MPDI), October 2017 [Open Access].
  1. Marcos Hervás, Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Martí Salvador; "An FPGA-Based WASN for Remote Real-Time Monitoring of Endangered Species: A Case Study on the Birdsong Recognition of Botaurus stellaris",  Sensors (Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 3rd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications") (ISSN: 1424-8220), 17(6), 1331; doi:10.3390/s17061331 (MPDI), June 2017 [Open Access].
  1. Rosa Ma. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Navarro, Francesc Alías, Marcos Hervás; "homeSound: Real-time Audio Event Detection based on High Performance Computing for Behaviour and Surveillance Remote Monitoring",  Sensors (Special Issue "Sensors for Ambient Assisted Living, Ubiquitous and Mobile Health") (ISSN: 1424-8220), 17(4), 854; doi:10.3390/s17040854 (MPDI), April 2017 [Open Access].
  1. Raúl Montaño, Francesc Alías; "The Role of Prosody and Voice Quality in Indirect Storytelling Speech: A cross-narrator perspective in four European Languages",  Speech Communication, vol. 88, pp. 1-16, April 2017 [link].
  1. Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Description of Anomalous Noise Events for Reliable Dynamic Traffic Noise Mapping in Real-Life Urban and Suburban Soundscapes", Applied Sciences (Section "Acoustics and Vibrations"), 7(2), 146; doi:10.3390/app7020146 (MPDI), February 2017 [Open Access].
  1. Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Unai Hernández-Jayo, Francesc Alías, Ignacio Angulo; "Design of a Mobile Low-Cost Sensor Network Using Urban Buses for Real-Time Ubiquitous Noise Monitoring",  Sensors (Special Issue "Smart City: Vision and Reality") (ISSN: 1424-8220), 17(1), 57; doi:10.3390/s17010057 (MPDI), January 2017 [Open Access].
2016
  1. Raúl Montaño, Francesc Alías; "The Role of Prosody and Voice Quality in Indirect Storytelling Speech: Annotation Methodology and Expressive Categories",  Speech Communication, vol. 85, pp. 8-18, December 2016 [link].
  1. Marc Arnela, Rémi Bladin, Saeed Dabbaghchian, Oriol Guasch, Francesc Alías, Xavier Pelorson, Annemie Van Hirtum, Olov Engwall; "Influence of lips on the production of vowels based on finite element simulations and experiments", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 139(5), pp. 2852-2859, 12 May 2016 [link].
  1. Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Xavier Sevillano; "A Review of Physical and Perceptual Feature Extraction Techniques for Speech, Music and Environmental Sounds", Applied Sciences (Special issue on Audio Signal Processing), 6(5), 143; doi:10.3390/app6050143 (MPDI), May 2016. [Open Access].

    (Also published as book chapter of Audio Signal Processing (Applied Sciences), MDPI, ISBN 978-3-03842-350-8 (print), ISBN 978-3-03842-351-5 (electronic), Vesa Välimäki (Ed.), pp. 71-114)
2015
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Look, Listen and Find: a Purely Audiovisual Approach to Online Videos Geotagging", Information Sciences (ISSN: 0020-0255) (Elsevier), vol. 295, pp. 558–572, 20 February 2016. [link]
2014
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías; "A One-Shot Domain-Independent Robust Multimedia Clustering Methodology Based on Hybrid Multimodal Fusion", Multimedia Tools and Applications (ISSN: 1380-7501), vol. 73, issue 3, Springer, pp. 1507-1543, December 2014 (Available online from August 2013). [link]
  1. Adso Fernández-Baena, Raúl Montaño, Marc Antonijoan, Arturo Roversi, David Miralles, Francesc Alías; "Gesture synthesis adapted to speech emphasis", Speech Communication (Special Issue on Gestures and Speech Interaction), vol. 57, pp. 331-334, February 2014. [link]
2013
  1. Marc Arnela, Oriol Guasch, Francesc Alías; "Effects of head geometry simplifications on acoustic radiation of vowel sounds based on time-domain finite-element simulations", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134 (4), pp. 2946-2954, October, 2013. [link]
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Narrow-band Autocorrelation function features for the automatic recognition of acoustic environments", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134 (1), Pt. 2, pp. 880-890, July 2013. [link]
  1. Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías; "Sentence-based Sentiment Analysis for Expressive Text-to-Speech" , IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 21 (2), pp. 223–233, February 2013. [link]
2012
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Gammatone Cepstral Coefficients: Biologically Inspired Features for Non-Speech Audio Classification" , IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 14 (6), pp. 1684–1689, December 2012. [link]
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Hierarchical Classification of Environmental Noise Sources by Considering the Acoustic Signature of Vehicle Pass-bys", Archives of Acoustics, vol. 37 (4), pp. 423-434, December 2012. [link]
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Positional and confidence voting-based consensus functions for fuzzy cluster ensembles", Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 193, pp. 1–32, 16 April, 2012. [link]
2011
  1. Francesc Alías, Lluís Formiga, Xavier Llorà; "Efficient and reliable perceptual weight tuning for unit-selection Text-to-Speech synthesis based on active interactive genetic algorithms: a proof-of-concept" , Speech Communication (Special issue on Perceptual and Statistical Audition), vol. 53 (5), pp. 786-800, May-June, 2011. [link]
2010
  1. Francesc Alías, Natàlia Munné; "Reliable pitch marking of affective speech at peaks or valleys using restricted dynamic programming" , IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (Special issue on Multimodal Affective Interaction), vol. 12 (6), pp. 481-489, October, 2010. [link]
2009
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez, Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo "Automatic refinement of an expressive speech corpus assembling subjective perception and automatic classification " , Speech Communication (Special issue on non-linear and conventional speech processing - NOLISP 2007) (ISSN 0167-6393), vol. 51 (9), pp. 744-758, September, 2009. [link]
2008
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, Xavier Gonzalvo, "Towards high quality next-generation Text-to-Speech synthesis: a Multidomain approach by automatic domain classification" , IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (Special issue on New Approaches to Statistical Speech and Text Processing) (ISSN 1558-7916), vol. 16 (7), pp. 1340-1354, September, 2008. [link] [demo]

Articles in other Academic Journals (Scopus and others)

2020
  1. Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Patrizia Bellucci, Pier Paolo Cartolano, Ilaria Coppa, Laura Peruzzi, Alessandro Bisceglie, and Giovanni Zambon; "Noise at the time of COVID 19: The impact in some areas in Rome and Milan, Italy" , Noise Mapping (Topical Issue on Smart acoustic solutions for smart cities), Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 248-264, (De Gruyter Open), November 2020. [Open Access]
2018
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Ferran Orga, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Detection of Anomalous Noise Events for Real-Time Road-Traffic Noise Mapping: The Dynamap’s project case study" , Noise Mapping (Topical Issue on Smart acoustic solutions for smart cities), Volume 5, Issue 1, pp. 71-85, (De Gruyter Open), Agost 2018. [Open Access]
2016
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Patrizia Belucci, Laura Peruzzi, Simone Radaelli, Paola Coppi, Luca Nencini, Andrea Cerniglia, Alessandro Bisceglie, Roberto Benocci and Giovanni Zambon; "DYNAMAP – Development of low cost sensors networks for real time noise mapping", Noise Mapping (Special Issue on Environmental noise aspects in EU funded projects), Volume 3, Issue 1, pp. 172-189, (De Gruyter Open), Maig. [Open Access]

Articles in Books

2016
  1. Marc Freixes, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Adding singing capabilities to Unit Selection TTS through HNM-based conversion",  Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages; A. Abad, A. Ortega, A.J.S. Teixeira, C. García-Mateo, C.D. Martínez-Hinarejos, F. Perdigão, F. Batista and N.J. Mamede (Eds.), Springer (ISBN 978-3-319-49168-4), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 10077, pp. 33-43, IberSPEECH, Lisbon, Portugal, 23-25 November 2016 [link]
2014
  1. Francesc Alías, David Miralles, Joan Claudi Socoró, Oriol Guasch; "Speech and image technologies to achieve a more natural and customizable interaction" , Multidisciplinary applications of Dialog Systems, R. López-Cózar (Ed.), Coca Ediciones (ISBN: 978-84-940128-5-3), pp. 191-221, December 2014 (in Spanish).
2009
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Javier Melenchón, Germán Cobo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Audiovisual Analysis and Synthesis for Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces" , Engineering the User Interaction: From Research to Practice; Redondo M., Bravo C., Ortega M. (Eds.) (ISBN 978-1-84800-135-0), Chapter 13, pp. 179-194, Springer London, January, 2009. [link]
2008
  1. Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías; "GTM user modeling for aIGA weight tuning in TTS Synthesis" , Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence; Juan R. Rabuñal, Julian Dorado & Alejandro Pazos (Eds.) (ISBN 978-1-59904-849-9), Information Science Reference, pp. 788-795, July, 2008. [link]
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Santi Planet, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez; "Emulating Subjective Criteria in Corpus Validation" , Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence; Juan R. Rabuñal, Julian Dorado & Alejandro Pazos (Eds.) (ISBN 978-1-59904-849-9), Information Science Reference, pp. 541-546, July, 2008. [link]

Articles in Conferences and Congresses

2022
  1. Marc Freixes, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, "Analysis of iterative adaptive and quasi closed phase inverse filtering techniques on OPENGLOT synthetic vowels", Proc. of IberSPEECH2022, pp.16-20, 14-16 November 2022, Granada, Spain [link].
2021
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Roberto Benocci, Fabio Angelini, Giovanni Zambon; "Effects of COVID-19 pandemic on the sound environment of the city of Milan, Italy: a comparison of the pre, during and post lockdown periods", Proc. of EuroNoise 2021, pp. 983-992, 25-27 October 2021, Madeira, Portugal - online [link].
  1. Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga; "Development and Validation of an Anomalous Noise Events Detector focused on salient Events through an Urban and Suburban WASN adapted to Real-Operation", Proc. of the 27th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV27) (ISBN 978-83-7880-799-5), 11-15 July 2021, Prague, Czech Republic [pdf].
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Spectro-temporal Analysis of Road Traffic Noise in the Rome and Milan Pilot Areas of the DYNAMAP project", Proc. of the 27th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV27) (ISBN 978-83-7880-799-5), 11-15 July 2021, Prague, Czech Republic [pdf].
  1. Marc Freixes, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Contribution of vocal tract and glottal source spectral cues in the generation of happy and aggressive [a] vowels", Proc. of IberSPEECH2021, pp. 240-244, 24-25 March 2021, Valladolid, Spain [link].
  1. Oriol Guasch, Francesc Alías, Marc Arnela, Joan Claudi Socoró, Marc Freixes, Arnau Pont; "GENIOVOX Project: Computational generation of expressive voice", Proc. of IberSPEECH2021, pp. 151-154, 24-25 March 2021, Valladolid, Spain [pdf].
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Marc Freixes; "Acoustic scenes recognition and perceptual evaluation of speech expressivity in the Speech and Audio Processing subject", Proc. of the 1st Research and Teaching Conference at La Salle - URL (ISBN: 978-84-946969-9-2), pp.24-25, 26 January 2021, Barcelona, Spain. (in Catalan)
2020
  1. Francesc Alías, Ferran Orga, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Analysis of the Impact of Anomalous Noise Events on Road Traffic Noise Levels Computation from Urban and Suburban WASNs in real operation",  9th Forum Acusticum ("Smart cities and Sensors" structured session), e-FA2020, pp. 699 - 705, 7-11 December 2020, Lyon, France [link].
2019
  1. Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès; "Characterization of a WASN-based urban acoustic dataset for the Dynamic Mapping of Road-Traffic Noise",  6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-6), 15-30 November 2019, Online (ECSA-6), 15-30 Novembre 2019, Online (Proceedings 2020 (MDPI), 42(1), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-6-06637 [pdf]).
  1. Marc Freixes, Marc Arnela, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "GlottDNN-based spectral tilt analysis of tense voice emotional styles for the expressive 3D numerical synthesis of vowel [a]",   Proceedings of the 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW10), pp. 132-136, 20-22 September 2019, Vienna, Austria, doi:10.21437/SSW.2019-24 [link].
  1. Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga; "Performance Analysis of the Acoustic Event Detector in the DYNAMAP’s Rome suburban area",  Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics (ICA 2019), pp.520-527, 9-13 September 2019, Aachen (Germany).[pdf].
  1. Leticia Duboc, Lisa Kinnear, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías; "Bringing Together Teaching, Research and Disemination",  Proceedings of the IV Symposium on pedagogical innovation and new technologies (ISBN: 978-84-946960-2-3), pp.5-10, 25 June 2019, Barcelona (Spain).
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Ferran Orga; "Acoustic Categorization of the urban Multi-Sensor Network of the DYNAMAP LIFE project developed for Road Traffic Noise Mapping",  48th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2019), 16-19 June 2019, Madrid (Spain) [link].
  1. Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga; "The ANED Algorithm for anomalous noise events detection and removal",  DYNAMAP Final Conference, 6 June 2019, Rome (Italy) [link].
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga; "Discarding anomalous noise events in real-time for road traffic noise mapping in the WASNs of the DYNAMAP LIFE project",  Urban Sound Symposium 2019, 3-5 April 2019, Ghent (Belgium) [link].
2018
  1. Marc Freixes, Marc Arnela, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Oriol Guasch; "Influence of tense, modal and lax phonation on the three-dimensional finite element synthesis of vowel [A]",   IberSPEECH2018, pp. 132 - 136, 21-23 November 2018, Barcelona (Spain) [pdf].
  1. Fabrizio Tappero, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Leticia Duboc; "Leveraging Urban Sounds: A Commodity Multi-Microphone Hardware Approach for Sound Recognition",   5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-5) 15-30 November 2018, Online. (Proceedings 2019 (MDPI), 4(1), 55; doi:10.3390/ecsa-5-05756 [pdf]).
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Ferran Orga; "Acoustic Conditions Analysis of a Multi-Sensor Network for the Adaptation of the Anomalous Noise Event Detector",   5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-5), 15-30 November 2018, Online. (Proceedings 2019 (MDPI), 4(1), 51; doi:10.3390/ecsa-5-05738 [pdf]).
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga; "DYNAMAP: A low-cost WASN for real-time road traffic noise mapping" , TecniAcústica 2018 (FIA 2018), pp. 555 - 562, Cádiz (Spain), 24-26 October 2018. [Proceedings]
  1. Roberto Benocci, Fabio Angelini, Marco Cambuaghi, Alessandro Bisceglie, Hector Eduardo Roman, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró Francesc Alías, Ferran Orga, Giovanni Zambon; "Preliminary results of Dynamap noise mapping operations",  47th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2018), pp.1-11, 26-29 August 2017, Chicago, Illinois (USA). [link].
  1. Roberto Benocci, Fabio Angelini, Alessandro Bisceglie, Giovanni Zambon, Patricia Belucci, Laura Peruzzi, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró Francesc Alías, Ferran Orga; "Initial verification of Dynamic Acoustic Mapping along the motorway surrounding the city of Rome",  47th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2018), pp.1-12, 26-29 August 2017, Chicago, Illinois (USA). [link].
  1. Ferran Orga, Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès; "Impact of Individual Anomalous Noise Events on the Monitoring of Traffic Noise in Urban Areas" , Euronoise 2018, Heraklion - Crete (Greece), 27-31 May 2018.
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Ferran Orga; "Adapting an Anomalous Noise Events Detector for Real-Life Operation in the Rome Suburban Pilot Area of the DYNAMAP’s Project" , Euronoise 2018, Heraklion - Crete (Greece), 27-31 May 2018.
2017
  1. Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Detecting Anomalous Noise Events on a Low-Capacity Acoustic Sensor in Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping",  4th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-4), doi:10.3390/ecsa-4-04897, 15-30 November 2017, Online. [link]. (Proceedings 2018 (MDPI), 2(3), 136; doi:10.3390/ecsa-4-04897 [pdf]).
  1. Giovanni Zambon, Roberto Benocci, Ferran Orga, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Real-time urban traffic noise maps: the influence of Anomalous Noise Events in Milan Pilot area of DYNAMAP",   46th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (Inter-Noise 2017), 27-30 August 2017, Hong Kong, China. [link].
  1. Giovanni Zambon, Alessandro Bisceglie, Roberto Benocci, Ferran Orga, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès; "Anomalous Noise Events Considerations for the Computation of Road Traffic Noise Levels: The Dynamap's Milan Case Study",  24th International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV24), 23-27 July 2017, London, UK. [link].
  1. Francesc Alías, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ferran Orga, Luca Nencini; "Performance analysis of the low-cost acoustic sensors developed for the DYNAMAP project: a case study in the Milan urban area ",  Acoustics 2017 Boston, 25-29 June 2017, Boston, USA. [link].
  1. Ferran Orga, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Patrizia Bellucci, Laura Peruzzi; "Anomalous Noise Events Considerations for the computation of road traffic noise levels in suburban areas: The DYNAMAP's Rome Case Study",  44º Covegno Nazionale AIA, 7-9 June 2017, Pavia, Italy. [link].
  1. Unai Hernández-Jayo, Rosa M. Alsina-Pagès, Francesc Alías, Igancio Angulo; "Remote Acoustic Monitoring System for Noise Sensing",  14th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation (REV 2017), pp. 863 - 871, 14-17 March 2017, New York, USA. [link].

    (Also published in Auer, M.E. and Zutin, D.G. (Eds.), "Online Engineering & Internet of Things". Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 22, pp. 77-84, Springer [link]).
2016
  1. Raúl Montaño, Marc Freixes, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Generating Storytelling Suspense from Neutral Speech using a Hybrid TTS Synthesis framework driven by a Rule-based Prosodic Model",  Proceedings of IberSPEECH 2016, pp. 129 - 138, 23-25 November 2016, Lisbon, Portugal. [link]
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Xavier Albiol, Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías; "Analysis and automatic detection of anomalous noise events in real recordings of road traffic noise for the LIFE DYNAMAP project", Inter-Noise 2016, pp. 6370-6379, 21-24 August 2016, Hamburg, Germany. [link]
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Voixer: from any text to any voice", META-FORUM 2016, 4-5 July 2016, Lisbon, Portugal. [link]
2015
  1. Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Xavier Sevillano, Luca Nencini; "Training an Anomalous Noise Event Detection Algorithm for Dynamic Road Traffic Noise Mapping: Environmental Noise Recording Campaign", TecniAcústica 2015, (ISBN 978-84-87985-26-3), pp. 345-352, 21-23 October 2015, Valencia (Spain). [pdf]
  1. Raúl Montaño, Francesc Alías; "The role of prosody and voice quality in text-dependent categories of storytelling across languages", InterSpeech 2015, pp.1186-1190, September 6-10, 2015, Dresden, Germany. [link]
  1. Joan Claudi Socoró, Gerard Ribera, Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías; "Development of an Anomalous Noise Event Detection Algorithm for dynamic road traffic noise mapping", Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV22), July 2015, Florence, Italy. [link]
2014
  1. Luca Nencini, Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano; "DYNAMAP: a system with low-cost hardware and artificial intelligence to compute real time noise maps", Proceedings of TecniAcústica 2014 (ISBN 978-84-87985-25-6), pp. 331-334, October 2014, Murcia (Spain). [pdf]
  1. José A. Montero, Francesc Alías, David Badia, Lluís Vicent, David Fonseca; "A method for designing automatic assessment systems based on teachers reasoning for evaluating subjective engineering student’s competences",  9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2014), June 2014, Barcelona (Spain). [link]
2013
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Wireless Sensor Networks with Noise Source Recognition Capabilities", TecniAcústica 2013, pp. 487-493 (ISBN: 978-84-87985-23-2, ISSN Digital: 2340-7441), October, 2013, Valladolid (Spain). [pdf]
  1. Raúl Montaño, Francesc Alías, Josep Ferrer; "Prosodic analysis of storytelling discourse modes and narrative situations oriented to Text-to-Speech synthesis", ISCA 8th Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW8), pp. 171-176, August-September 2013, Barcelona (Spain). [link]
  1. Oriol Guasch; Sten Ternström, Marc Arnela, Francesc Alías; "Unified numerical simulation of the physics of voice. The EUNISON project. ", ISCA 8th Speech Synthesis Workshop (SSW8), pp. 241-242, August-September 2013, Barcelona (Demo Session). [link]
  1. Patrice Guyot, Xavier Valero, Julien Pinquier, Francesc Alías; "Two-step detection of water sound events for the diagnostic and monitoring of dementia" , 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 2013, San Jose, California (EEUU). [link]
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Automatic classification of road vehicles considering their pass-by acoustic signature", International Conference on Acoustics (ICA), June 2013, Montréal (Canada). [link]
  1. Xavier Valero, Luca Nencini, Francesc Alías, Bruna Vinci; "Feasibility of automatic noise source recognition in collaborative wireless sensor networks" , Proceedings of AIA-DAGA 2013, March 2013, Meran (Italy). [link]
  1. Xavier Valero, Damiano Oldoni, Dick Botteldooren, Francesc Alías; "Sound event recognition in urban soundscapes with Self-Organizing Maps and Support Vector Machines" , Final Meeting COST Action "Soundscape of European Cities and Landscapes" (TD0804), March 2013, Meran (Italy).
2012
  1. Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías; "Perceptual optimization of Unit-Selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis Systems by means of active interactive Genetic Algorithms" ,IberSPEECH 2012 – VII Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla and III Iberian SLTech Workshop, pp.500-509, 21-23 November, Madrid (Spain) [pdf]
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Acoustic signal analysis by means of bio-inspired Cepstral coefficients and its application to the recognition of soundscapes" , Proceedings of Acústica 2012, October 2012, Évora (Portugal). ( in Spanish ) [link]
  1. Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías; "Three-class Sentiment Analysis adapted to short texts" , Proceedings of the XXVIII Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), September 2012, Castelló (Spain). [pdf]
  1. Isaac Lozano, Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías; "Spanish JavaSimLib: a tool to compute the semantic similarity between words in Spanish" , Proceedings of the XXVIII Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing (SEPLN), September 2012, Castelló (Spain). ( in Spanish ) [pdf]
  1. Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías; "Sentiment Analysis of Twitter messages based on Multinomial Naive Bayes" , Workshop on Sentiment Analysis at SEPLN, September 2012, Castelló (Spain). [pdf]
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Gammatone Wavelet Features for Sound Classification in Surveillance Applications" , 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2012), August 2012, Bucharest (Romania). [link]
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Classification of Audio Scenes Using Narrow-Band Autocorrelation Features" , 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2012), August 2012, Bucharest (Romania). [link]
  1. Xavier Valero, Damiano Oldoni, Francesc Alías, Dick Botteldooren; "Support Vector Machines and Self-Organizing Maps for the recognition of sound events in urban soundscapes" , Inter-Noise 2012, August 2012, New York (USA). [link]
  1. Marc Arnela, Oriol Guasch, Francesc Alías; "Analysis of the radiation effects on vowels by means of time domain finite element simulations" , The 19 International Congress on Sound and Vibration (ICSV19), July 2012, Vilnius (Lithuania). [link]
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Audio and video cues for geo-tagging online videos in the absence of metadata" , 10th Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI2012), June 2012, Annecy (France). [link]
2011
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Automatic monitoring of environmental noise sources", Tecniacústica 2011, October, 2011, Cáceres (Spain). ( in Spanish ) [pdf]
  1. Marc Antonijoan, Marc Rovira, Francesc Alías, Gabriel Fernàndez; "Expressive virtual storytelling", 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July, 2011, Barcelona (Spain). (Demo paper)
  1. Xavier Valero, Pau Farré, Francesc Alías; "Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques for the Automatic Recognition of Soundscapes" , Proceedings of Forum Acusticum, pp. 2037-2042 (ISBN: 978-84-694-1520-7, ISSN: 221-3767), June, 2011, Aalborg (Denmark).
2010
  1. Lluís Formiga, Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Adaptation of the URL-TTS system to the 2010 Albayzin Evaluation Campaign" , Proceedings of FALA 2010, pp. 363-370 (ISBN: 978-84-8158-510-0), November, 2010, Vigo (Spain). [pdf]
  1. Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías, Isaac Lozano; "Text classification of domain-styled text and sentiment-styled text for expressive speech synthesis" , Proceedings of FALA 2010, pp. 75-78 (ISBN: 978-84-8158-510-0), November, 2010, Vigo (Spain). [pdf]
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías; "Applicability of MPEG-7 low level descriptors to environmental sound source recognition " , EAA EUROREGIO 2010 Congress & Exhibition, September, 2010, Ljubljana (Slovenia).
  1. Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà; "Evolutionary process indicators for active IGAs applied to Weight Tuning in Unit Selection TTS synthesis" , IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, WCCI 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp. 2322-2329, July, 2010, Barcelona (Spain). [ppt]
2009
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías, Stylianos Kephalopoulos, Marco Paviotti; "Pattern recognition and separation of road noise sources by means of ACF, MFCC and probability density estimation" , Euronoise 2009, October, 2009, Edinburgh (UK).
  1. Alexandre Trilla, Francesc Alías; "Sentiment classification in English from sentence-level annotations of emotions regarding models of affect" , Proceedings of InterSpeech2009 (ISSN: 1990-9772), pp. 516-519, September, 2009, Brighton (UK).
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Fuzzy clusterers combination by positional voting for robust document clustering" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural (ISSN:1135-5948), nº43, pp. 245-253, September, 2009, San Sebastián (Spain). [pdf]
2008
  1. Carlos Monzo, Lluís Formiga, Jordi Adell, Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró "Adapting the URL-TTS for the Albayzin 2008 competition" , V Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, pp. 87-90, November, 2008, Bilbao (Spain) (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. José A. Montero, Joan Gómez, Francesc Alías, Carles Garriga, Lluís Vicent; "Evaluating subjective competences. An experience on assessing the performance of students' teamwork" , VIII Jornada sobre Aprendizaje Cooperativo (ISBN 978-84-691-4605-7), pp. 171-180, July 4, 2008, Lleida (Spain) (in Spanish)
  1. David García, Francesc Alías; "Emotion identification from text using semantic disambiguation" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 40 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 75-82, April, 2008. (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Manuel Pablo Triviño, Francesc Alías; "Statistical prediction of spectral discontinuities of speech in concatenative synthesis" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 40 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 67-74, April, 2008. (in Spanish) [pdf]
2007
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Text Clustering on Latent Thematic Spaces: Variants, Strenghts and Weaknesses" , 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Signal Separation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4446, pp. 794-801, September, 2007, London (UK).
  1. Francesc Alías, Manuel Pablo Triviño; "A phonetically balanced Modified Rhyme Test for evaluating Catalan speech intelligibility" , Proceedings of 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2197-2200, August, 2007, Saarbrücken (Germany) [pdf]
  1. Carlos Monzo, Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Xavier Gonzalvo, Santiago Planet; "Discriminating Expressive Speech Styles by Voice Quality Parameterization" , Proceedings of 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2081-2084, August, 2007, Saarbrücken (Germany).
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo, Elisa Martínez; "Expressive Speech Corpus Validation by Mapping Subjective Perception to Automatic Classification Based on Prosody and Voice Quality" , Proceedings of 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 2125-2128, August, 2007, Saarbrücken (Germany).
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "BordaConsensus: a New Consensus Function for Soft Cluster Ensembles" , 30th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference, July, 2007, Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
  1. Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías; "Extracting user Preferences by GTM for aiGA Weight Tuning in Unit Selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4507, pp. 654-661, June, 2007, San Sebastián (Spain).
  1. José A. Montero, Francesc Alías, Carles Garriga, Lluís Vicent, Ignasi Iriondo; "Assessing Students’ Teamwork Performance by means of Fuzzy Logic" , The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4507, pp. 383-390, June, 2007, San Sebastián (Spain).
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez; "Validation of an Expressive Speech Corpus by Mapping Automatic Classification to Subjective Evaluation" , The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, nº 4507, pp. 646-653, June, 2007, San Sebastián (Spain).
  1. Xavier Gonzalvo, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo; "HMM-based Spanish speech synthesis using CBR as F0 estimator" , ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non Linear Speech Processing (NOLISP07), May, 2007, Paris (France).
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Objective and Subjective Evaluation of an Expressive Speech Corpus" , ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Non Linear Speech Processing (NOLISP07), May, 2007, Paris (France).
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Francesc Alías; "Prosody Modelling of Spanish for Expressive Speech Synthesis" , International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP07), vol. IV, pp. 821-824, May, 2007, Hawai'i (USA).
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Hierarchical Consensus Architecture for Robust Document Clustering" , 29th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR07), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, nº 4425 (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, pp. 741-745, April, 2007, Rome (Italy).
2006
  1. Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Multidomain Text-to-Speech Conversion: principles and portability" , IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (4JTH06), pp. 237-242, ISBN 84-96214-82-6, November, 2006, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Lluís Formiga, Francesc Alías; "Heuristics for implementing the A* algorithm for unit selection TTS synthesis systems" , IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (4JTH06), pp. 219-224, ISBN 84-96214-82-6, November, 2006, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Lluís Formiga, Xavier Gonzalvo, Francesc Alías, Pere Miralles; "Prosody modelling and estimation by means of Case-Based Reasoning" , IV Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (4JTH06), pp. 183-188, ISBN 84-96214-82-6, November, 2006, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish)
  1. Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Xavier Sevillano, Ignasi Iriondo, Xavier Gonzalvo; "Multi-domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis by Automatic Text Classification" , InterSpeech2006 - International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), pp. 1304-1307, September, 2006, Pittsburgh (USA). [pdf]
  1. Francesc Alías, Carlos Monzo, Joan Claudi Socoró; "A Pitch Marks Filtering Algorithm based on Restricted Dynamic Programming" , InterSpeech2006 - International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP), pp. 1698-1701, September, 2006, Pittsburgh (USA). [pdf]
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Gonzalvo, Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró, José Antonio Montero, David García; "Text Classification adapted to Multi-domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 267-274, September, 2006, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Robust Document Clustering by Exploiting Feature Diversity in Cluster Ensembles" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 169-176, September, 2006, Zaragoza (Spain).
  1. Germán Cobo, Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Text Representation Techniques for Document Clustering" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 328-336, September, 2006, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish)
  1. Carlos Monzo, Francesc Alías, José Antonio Morán, Xavier Gonzalvo; "Phonetic Transcription of Spanish Acronyms by using C4.5 algorithm" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 37 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 275-282, September, 2006, Zaragoza (Spain). (in Spanish)
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Text Classification based on Associative Relational Networks for Multi-Domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , 2006 SIGIR Workshop on Computational Analysis of Stylistics in Text Retrieval, August 10, 2006, Seattle (USA). [pdf]
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Germán Cobo, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Feature Diversity in Cluster Ensembles for Robust Document Clustering" , The 29th Annual International ACM SIGIR, August, 2006, Seattle (USA).
  1. Xavier Llorà, Kumara Sastry, Francesc Alías, David E. Goldberg, Michael Welge; "Analyzing Active Interactive Genetic Algorithms using Visual Analytics" , 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), July, 2006, Seattle (USA).
  1. José A. Montero, José A. Morán, Joan Gómez, Francesc Alías, Lluís Vicent, David Badia; "The role of Cooperative Learning in Linear Algebra for engineeers. A practical study." , 6th Workshop on Cooperative Learning, July 7, 2006, Barcelona (Spain). (in Spanish)
  1. José A. Montero, José A. Morán, Joan Gómez, Francesc Alías, Lluís Vicent, David Badia; "Moving from classical teaching to active learning in Algebra for engineers" , International Seminar on Innovative Teaching and Learning in Engineering Education, May, 2006, Valladolid (Spain).(in Spanish)
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà, Lluís Formiga, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg; "Efficient interactive weight tuning for TTS synthesis: reducing user fatigue by improving user consistency" , 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP06), vol. I, pp. 865-868, May, 2006, Toulouse (France). [link]
2005
  1. Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Lluís Formiga, Xavier Gonzalvo, Carlos Monzo, Xavier Sevillano; "High quality Spanish restricted-domain TTS oriented to a weather forecast application" , The 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (InterSpeech) ISSN 1018-4074, pp. 2573-2576, September, 2005, Lisbon (Portugal). [pdf]
2004
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Pere Barnola, Lluís Formiga, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Multidomain Text-to-Speech Conversion" , III Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla (3JTH04), pp. 101-106, November, 2004, Valencia (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà, Ignasi Iriondo, Xavier Sevillano, Lluís Formiga, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Perception-Guided and Phonetic Clustering Weight Tuning Based on Diphone Pairs for Unit Selection TTS" , 8th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP2004), October, 2004, Jeju Island (Korea). [pdf]
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Reliability in ICA-based Text Classification" , 5th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation (ICA2004), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, nº 3195 (ISSN: 0302-9743), Springer Verlag, pp. 1213-1217, September, 2004, Granada (Spain).
  1. José A. Montero, Francesc Alías, Jordi Rodríguez, Lluís Formiga; "ALGTEC as a basis of a new constructivist methodology for the teaching of the Linear Algebra in Engineering" , Proceedings of the XIX Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI) , September, 2004, Barcelona (Spain). (in Spanish)
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Javier Melenchón, M. Angeles Llorca; "Modeling and Synthesizing Emotional Speech for Catalan Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , Tutorial and Research Workshop on Affective Dialog Systems (ADS04), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, nº 3068 (ISSN 0302- 9743), Springer Verlag, pp.197-208, June, 2004, Kloster Irsee (Germany).
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "ICA-based Hierarchical Text Classification for Multi-Domain Text-to-Speech Synthesis" , 2004 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP04), vol. V, pp. 697-700, May, 2004, Montreal (Canada).
  1. José A. Montero, Elisa Martínez, José A. Moran, Francesc Alías, Rosa Alsina; "The methodological transition in academics: is it a necessity?" , IV International Conference of Virtual Education (CIVE2004), February, 2004, Internet. (in Spanish)
2003
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà, Ignasi Iriondo, Lluís Formiga; "Subjective Weight Tuning for Unit Selection by means of Interactive Genetic Algorithms" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 31 (ISSN:1135-5948), pp. 75-82, September, 2003, Alcalá de Henares (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Sevillano, Pere Barnola, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Multi-domain text-to-speech architecture", Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 31 (ISSN: 1135-5948), pp. 83-90, September, 2003, Alcalá de Henares (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà ; "Evolutionary weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection speech synthesis", The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech) ISSN 1018-40-74, vol. 2,  pp. 1333-1336, September, 2003, Geneve (Switzerland). [pdf]
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Javier Sanchis, Javier Melenchón; "A Hybrid Method Oriented to Concatenative Text-to-Speech Synthesis" The 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (EuroSpeech), ISSN 1018-40-74, vol. 4, pp. 2953-2958, September, 2003, Geneve (Switzerland).
  1. Javier Melenchón, Fernando de la Torre, Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Elisa Martínez, Lluís Vicent; "Text to visual synthesis with appearance models", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), ISBN 0-7803-7750-8, vol. 1, pp. 237-240, September, 2003, Barcelona (Spain). [link]
  1. Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Pere Barnola; "Multi-domain text classification for unit selection Text-to-Speech Synthesis", Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), ISBN 1-876346-48-5, pp. 2341-2344, August, 2003, Barcelona (Spain). [pdf]
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Independent topic extraction for text classification" , Proceedings of the XVIII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI) , September, 2003, A Coruña (Spain). (in Spanish)
2002
  1. Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo; "The Evolution on Speech Synthesis at La Salle School of Engineering" , II Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla, December, 2002, Granada (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías, Javier Melenchón; "A hybrid model oriented to multimodal speech synthesis" , Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 29 (ISSN: 1135-5948), pp. 159-163, September, 2002, Valladolid (Spain). (in Spanish)
  1. Javier Melenchón, Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alías; "Parameterized 2D model based on real samples applied to talking-heads synthesis" Actas del XVII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI), pp. 383-384, September, 2002, Alcalá de Henares (Spain). (in Spanish)
  1. Javier Melenchón, Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo; "PREVIS: a Person-specific Real Virtual Speaker" IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), August, 2002, Lausanne (Switzerland). [link]
  1. José A. Montero, Elisa Martínez, José A. Moran, Francesc Alías, Jordi Rodríguez; "ALGTEC: a complement for teaching Linear Algebra in Telecommunications Engineering" Proceedings of the International Conference of Education, Formation and Technology (Virtual Educa), June, 2002, Valencia (Spain). (in Spanish)
2001
  1. Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo "Automatically pitch marking based on dynamic programming" ,   Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural, nº 27 (ISSN: 1135-5948), pp. 225-231, September, 2001, Jaén (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]
  1. Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo; "Catalan phone labeling based on DHMM" , Proceedings of the XVI Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio (URSI), pp. 149-150; September, 2001, Madrid (Spain). (in Spanish) [pdf]

Technical Reports and spreading articles

2015
  1. Xavier Sevillano, Francesc Alías, Patrizia Belucci; "Life DYNAMAP: mapping road noise", World Highways (Eurofile Edition), pp. e12-e13, September 2015. [link]
2014
  1. Francesc Alías; "The 'here and now effect'", Secartys News, InnoTech section, p. 17, nº 15, November 2014. (in Spanish) [link]
  1. Francesc Alías; "From a mobile life to a smart life'", Supplement +Valor of El Periódico de Catalunya, February, 25 2014 (in Spanish) [link]
2013
  1. Xavier Valero, Francesc Alías, Patrice Guyot, Julien Pinquier; "Assisting doctors in the diagnostic and follow-up of dementia using the sound information from wearable sensors", 4th R+D+i Workshop on ICT & Health, May 2013, Girona (Spain). [pdf]
2011
  1. Francesc Alías, Ignasi Iriondo, Joan Claudi Socoró; "Applying automatic speech generation techniques to audiovisual production", Quaderns del CAC (ISSN: 2014-2242), nº 37, vol. XIV (2), pp. 105-114, December, 2011. [pdf]
2006
  1. Xavier Llorà, Kumara Sastry, Francesc Alías, David E. Goldberg, Michael Welge; "Analyzing Active Interactive Genetic Algorithms using Visual Analytics" , Technical Report No. 2006004 of IlliGAL - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, February 2006, Urbana-Champaign (USA). [pdf]
2005
  1. Xavier Llorà, Francesc Alías, Lluís Formiga, Kumara Sastry, David E. Goldberg; "Evaluation consistency in iGAs: user contradictions as cycles in partial-ordering graphs" , Technical Report No. 2005022 of IlliGAL - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November, 2005, Urbana-Champaign (USA). [pdf]
2003
  1. Francesc Alías, Xavier Llorà ; "Evolutionary weight tuning based on diphone pairs for unit selection speech synthesis", Technical Report No. 2003018 of IlliGAL - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, June, 2003, Urbana-Champaign (USA). [pdf]

Ph.D. Thesis

2006
  • Francesc Alías; "Multi-domain Unit selection based Text-to-Speech Synthesis with subjective weight tuning and robust pitch marking" . Supervisor: Dr. Joan Claudi Socoró, Defense: September, 28, 2006. (in Spanish) [abstract] [Link TDX]