Sébastien Le Maguer

According to our database, Sébastien Le Maguer authored at least 37 papers between 2011 and 2024.

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2024

The limits of the Mean Opinion Score for speech synthesis evaluation.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Simon King, Naomi Harte

Comput. Speech Lang., March, 2024

2023

Putting Robots in Context: Challenging the Influence of Voice and Empathic Behaviour on Trust.

Marta Romeo, Ilaria Torre, Sébastien Le Maguer, Angelo Cangelosi, Iolanda Leite

Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023

Listener sensitivity to deviating obstruents in WaveNet.

Ayushi Pandey, Jens Edlund, Sébastien Le Maguer, Naomi Harte

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

Sp1NY: A Quick and Flexible Speech Visualisation Tool in Python.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Mark Anderson, Naomi Harte

Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2023

2022

Production characteristics of obstruents in WaveNet and older TTS systems.

Ayushi Pandey, Sébastien Le Maguer, Julie Carson-Berndsen, Naomi Harte

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Back to the Future: Extending the Blizzard Challenge 2013.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Simon King, Naomi Harte

Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2022

Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions.

Guy Laban, Sébastien Le Maguer, Minha Lee, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Samantha Reig, Ilaria Torre, Ravi Tejwani, Matthew J. Dennis, André Pereira

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022

2021

Phonetic accommodation in interaction with a virtual language learning tutor: A Wizard-of-Oz study.

Iona Gessinger, Bernd Möbius, Sébastien Le Maguer, Eran Raveh, Ingmar Steiner

J. Phonetics, 2021

Liaison and Pronunciation Learning in End-to-End Text-to-Speech in French.

Jason Taylor, Sébastien Le Maguer, Korin Richmond

Proceedings of the 11th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2021

Mind your p's and k's - Comparing obstruents across TTS voices of the Blizzard Challenge 2013.

Ayushi Pandey, Sébastien Le Maguer, Julie Carson-Berndsen, Naomi Harte

Proceedings of the 11th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2021

Synthesizing a human-like voice is the easy way.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Benjamin R. Cowan

Proceedings of the CUI 2021, 2021

2020

ASVspoof 2019: A large-scale public database of synthesized, converted and replayed speech.

Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco, Héctor Delgado, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas W. D. Evans, Md. Sahidullah, Ville Vestman, Tomi Kinnunen, Kong Aik Lee, Lauri Juvela, Paavo Alku, Yu-Huai Peng, Hsin-Te Hwang, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang, Sébastien Le Maguer, Markus Becker, Zhen-Hua Ling

Comput. Speech Lang., 2020

FlexEval, création de sites web légers pour des campagnes de tests perceptifs multimédias (FlexEval, creation of light websites for multimedia perceptual test campaigns).

Cédric Fayet, Alexis Blond, Grégoire Coulombel, Claude Simon, Damien Lolive, Gwénolé Lecorvé, Jonathan Chevelu, Sébastien Le Maguer

Proceedings of the Actes de la 6e conférence conjointe Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP, 2020

Should robots have accents?

Ilaria Torre, Sébastien Le Maguer

Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2020

Investigation of Auditory Nerve Model Based Analysis for Vocoded Speech Synthesis.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Naomi Harte

Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience, 2020

Can Auditory Nerve Models Tell us What's Different About WaveNet Vocoded Speech?

Sébastien Le Maguer, Naomi Harte

Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2020

2019

The ASVspoof 2019 database.

Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Massimiliano Todisco, Héctor Delgado, Andreas Nautsch, Nicholas W. D. Evans, Md. Sahidullah, Ville Vestman, Tomi Kinnunen, Kong Aik Lee, Lauri Juvela, Paavo Alku, Yu-Huai Peng, Hsin-Te Hwang, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang, Sébastien Le Maguer, Markus Becker, Fergus Henderson, Rob Clark, Yu Zhang, Quan Wang, Ye Jia, Kai Onuma, Koji Mushika, Takashi Kaneda, Yuan Jiang, Li-Juan Liu, Yi-Chiao Wu, Wen-Chin Huang, Tomoki Toda, Kou Tanaka, Hirokazu Kameoka, Ingmar Steiner, Driss Matrouf, Jean-François Bonastre, Avashna Govender, Srikanth Ronanki, Jing-Xuan Zhang, Zhen-Hua Ling

CoRR, 2019

Speech Synthesis Evaluation - State-of-the-Art Assessment and Suggestion for a Novel Research Program.

Petra Wagner, Jonas Beskow, Simon Betz, Jens Edlund, Joakim Gustafson, Gustav Eje Henter, Sébastien Le Maguer, Zofia Malisz, Éva Székely, Christina Tånnander, Jana Voße

Proceedings of the 10th ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, 2019

2018

Creating New Language and Voice Components for the Updated MaryTTS Text-to-Speech Synthesis Platform.

Ingmar Steiner, Sébastien Le Maguer

Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018

Agile MaryTTS Architecture for the Blizzard Challenge 2018.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Ingmar Steiner, Francesco Tombini, Pradipta Deb, Moitree Basu, Insa Kröger

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2018, Hyderabad, India, September 8, 2018, 2018

2017

Synthesis of Tongue Motion and Acoustics From Text Using a Multimodal Articulatory Database.

Ingmar Steiner, Sébastien Le Maguer, Alexander Hewer

IEEE ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process., 2017

An HMM/DNN Comparison for Synchronized Text-to-Speech and Tongue Motion Synthesis.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Ingmar Steiner, Alexander Hewer

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

Shadowing Synthesized Speech - Segmental Analysis of Phonetic Convergence.

Iona Gessinger, Eran Raveh, Sébastien Le Maguer, Bernd Möbius, Ingmar Steiner

Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2017

The 'Uprooted' MaryTTS Entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2017.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Ingmar Steiner

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, August 25, 2017, 2017

2016

De l'utilisation de descripteurs issus de la linguistique computationnelle dans le cadre de la synthèse par HMM (Toward the use of information density based descriptive features in HMM based speech synthesis).

Sébastien Le Maguer, Bernd Möbius, Ingmar Steiner, Damien Lolive

Proceedings of the Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. Volume 1 : JEP, 2016

Se concentrer sur les différences : une méthode d'évaluation subjective efficace pour la comparaison de systèmes de synthèse (Focus on differences : a subjective evaluation method to efficiently compare TTS systems * ).

Jonathan Chevelu, Damien Lolive, Sébastien Le Maguer, David Guennec

Proceedings of the Actes de la conférence conjointe JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016. Volume 1 : JEP, 2016

The MaryTTS entry for the Blizzard Challenge 2016.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Ingmar Steiner

Proceedings of the Blizzard Challenge 2016, Cuppertino, CA, USA, September 16, 2016, 2016

2015

Health consumer-oriented information retrieval.

Vincent Claveau, Thierry Hamon, Sébastien Le Maguer, Natalia Grabar

Proceedings of the Digital Healthcare Empowering Europeans, 2015

How to compare TTS systems: a new subjective evaluation methodology focused on differences.

Jonathan Chevelu, Damien Lolive, Sébastien Le Maguer, David Guennec

Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2015

Recherche d'information médicale pour le patient: Impact de ressources terminologiques.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Thierry Hamon, Natalia Grabar, Vincent Claveau

Proceedings of the CORIA 2015 - Conférence en Recherche d'Infomations et Applications, 2015

2014

RePaLi Participation to CLEF eHealth IR Challenge 2014: Leveraging Term Variation.

Vincent Claveau, Thierry Hamon, Natalia Grabar, Sébastien Le Maguer

Proceedings of the Working Notes for CLEF 2014 Conference, 2014

2013

Évaluation expérimentale d'un système statistique de synthèse de la parole, HTS, pour la langue française. (Experimental evaluation of a statistical speech synthesis system, HTS, for french).

Sébastien Le Maguer

PhD thesis, 2013

Evaluation of contextual descriptors for HMM-based speech synthesis in French.

Sébastien Le Maguer, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëffard

Proceedings of the Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2013

2012

Évaluation segmentale du système de synthèse HTS pour le français (Segmental evaluation of HTS) [in French].

Sébastien Le Maguer, Nelly Barbot, Olivier Boëffard

Proceedings of the Joint Conference JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, 2012

Vers une annotation automatique de corpus audio pour la synthèse de parole (Towards Fully Automatic Annotation of Audio Books for Text-To-Speech (TTS) Synthesis) [in French].

Olivier Boëffard, Laure Charonnat, Sébastien Le Maguer, Damien Lolive, Gaëlle Vidal

Proceedings of the Joint Conference JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, 2012

Towards Fully Automatic Annotation of Audio Books for TTS.

Olivier Boëffard, Laure Charonnat, Sébastien Le Maguer, Damien Lolive

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2012

2011

Towards a Versatile Multi-Layered Description of Speech Corpora Using Algebraic Relations.

Nelly Barbot, Vincent Barreaud, Olivier Boëffard, Laure Charonnat, Arnaud Delhay, Sébastien Le Maguer, Damien Lolive

Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, 2011