PROPICTO - PRojection du langage Oral vers des unités PICTOgraphiques
My Ph.D. is part of the PROPICTO project, whose goal is to create Speech-to-Pictograph translation systems enabling the conversion of French speech input into pictograph sequences, thus enhancing communication access for non-French speakers (allophones) or people with cognitive impairments. A full description of the project can be found here.
CREAM - documentation de langues CREoles Assistée par la Machine
I participated in the CREAM project, which aims to propose innovative methods for language documentation and resource creation (machine-learning methods, query-by-example), focusing on Creole languages. My work, entitled 'Automatic Speech Recognition and Query By Example for Creole Languages Documentation' was published at ACL 2022. A full description of the project can be found here.
2022 Eighth Frederick Jelinek Memorial Summer Workshop (JSALT) - Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, USA)
I participated in the JSALT workshop and was part of the team 'Multilingual Speech-to-Speech Translation for Under-Resourced Languages' via the ESPERANTO consortium (Exchanges for SPEech ReseArch aNd TechnOlogies, Horizon 2020). For six weeks, I had the opportunity to be part of a major workshop on speech and language engineering, working with international researchers. I worked specifically on pre-trained LMs for low-resource machine translation.
| March - Sept. 2023 | Master's student Chloé Dion |
| April - June 2024 | BUT student Enzo Vigne |
| May 2022 | Presentation of my Ph.D. subject at the Pint of Science Festival 2022: 'From Speech to Pictograms.' Pint of Science is an international science festival aimed at disseminating science outside the laboratory walls, in cafés or bars, to a non-expert audience. |
| June 2023 | Presentation of my Ph.D at the "Jeunes Chercheurs en Parole" group seminars. The talk is available on YouTube. |
| March 2024 | I gave a talk about my work at the Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’Université du Mans (LIUM) seminar on "Automatic Speech-to-Pictogram Translation to Facilitate Communication for People with Language Impairments". |