Expert profile: Dr. Frédéric Beaugendre

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WORK EXPERIENCE

2002-Now Senior Research and Development Engineer at 
 Dialoca, Belgium (http://www.dialoca.com), in 
 the “Automatic Speech Recognition” group. 
 Responsible of the front-end of a speech recognizer 
 dedicated to telephony applications. Design, 
 implementation, organisation and follow-up of all 
 research and development activities, team coordination.

1997-2001 Project Manager at Lernout & Hauspie Speech 
 Products, Belgium (http://www.lhsl.com), in 
 the “Corporate Research and Development” department:

 - 1997-1999: Responsible of the research and 
 development cycle of speech recognition products for 
 tonal languages (170 man/months over 3 years).
 - 2000: Development of a language learning system
 - 2000-2001: Responsible of the development of a 
 dialogue-based car navigation system (295 man/month 
 over 2 years).
 
 The common tasks were the definition of the projects, 
 planning of budget and resources, organisation and 
 follow-up of all research and development activities, 
 team coordination.

1995-96 Research associate at the Institute for Perception 
 Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in the Hearing and 
 Speech Group (Institute co-sponsored by Philips Research 
 and the Eindhoven University of Technology) 
 (http://www.ipo.tue.nl/ipo/index.html).

 Subject: “Automatic labelling of prosodic events”; field: 
 speech analysis and recognition (research supported by 
 the European program Human Capital and Mobility) (2 
 years).

1994 Engineer, responsible of the development of the 
 French synthesis part of a system able to deliver up-to- 
 date traffic information through the car radio in a 
 language selected by the user: the RDS-TMC project (Radio 
 Data System - Traffic Message Channel), for Philips Car 
 Systems (acquired by VDO: 
 http://www.vdodayton.com/products/navigation/h_index.htm) 
 (1 year).

1990-94 Development of a diphone Text-To-Speech 
 Synthesiser, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France.

1990-92 Design and development of the automatic generation 
 module of prosody for French in the multilingual text-to- 
 speech synthesis system developed within the framework of 
 the “POLYGLOT” European-ESPRIT 2104 project 
 (collaboration with Philips, Bull & Olivetti) (2.5 years)

EDUCATION

1990-94 Ph.D. from the University of Orsay, France ; 
 research undertaken at the LIMSI-CNRS in the “Spoken 
 Language Processing” group (http://www.limsi.fr). 

 Title: “A perceptual study of French intonation”; field: 
 speech synthesis; supervisor: Jean-Sylvain Liénard; 
 defended on the 4th October 1994 (passed with honours).

July 1989 F.I.U.P.S.O Engineering Degree in Electronics 
 and Signal Processing (Engineering School of the 
 University of Paris XI, Orsay, France) 
 (http://www.fiupso.u-psud.fr/).


List of Publications

Books :
- 1 Lacheret A., Beaugendre F. (1999) : "La Prosodie du Français", CNRS 
Langage, ISBN 2-271-05620-9 (http://www.cnrseditions.fr/).
- [2] Beaugendre F. (1994) : "Une étude perceptive de l'intonation du 
français", PhD Thesis, University of Paris XI, Orsay, France. 

Chapters in Books :
- [3] de Mareuil P., d'Alessandro C., Beaugendre F., Lacheret A. (2003) : 
"Text chuncking for prosodic phrasing and generation in French", Campbell N. 
(ed.), Forthcoming.
- [4] Mertens P., Beaugendre F. & d'Alessandro C. (1996) : "Comparing 
approaches to pitch contour stylisation for speech synthesis." In "Progress in 
Text-To-Speech Synthesis", van Santen J.P.H., Sproat R.W., Olive J.P. & 
Hirshberg J. (eds.), New-York, Springer-Verlag.
- [5] Beaugendre F. (1996) : "Modèles de l'intonation pour la 
synthèse de la parole", in "Fondements et perspectives en traitement 
automatique de la parole", Aupelf-Uref (ed.).

Papers in international journal :
- [6] de Mareuil P., d'Alessandro C., Beaugendre F., Lacheret A. (2001) : 
"Une grammaire en tronçons appliquée à la génération 
automatique de la prosodie", in Traitement Automatique des Langues, Vol. 42, 
n°1 (http://www.atala.org/tal/volumes/vol-421.html).
- [7] Beaugendre F., House D., Hermes D.J. (2001) : "Accentuation boundaries in 
Dutch, French and Swedish.", Speech Communication, Vol. 33, pp. 305-318.
- [8] Beaugendre F. & d'Alessandro C. : "A perceptual description of French 
intonation for speech synthesis.", Submitted to Computer, Speech and Language.

Papers in international conference :
- [9] Beaugendre F., Claes T., Van hamme H. (2000) : "Dialect Adaptation for 
Mandarin Chinese Speech Recognition", Proceedings of International Conference 
on Spoken Language Processing, 2000, Beijing. 
- 1 Xu H., Beaugendre F., Van hamme H. (1998) : "Adapting western language 
recognizer for Chinese recognition.", Proceedings of International Symposium on 
Chinese Spoken Language Processing 1998, Singapore.
- 1 House D., Hermes D. & Beaugendre F., (1998) : "Perceptual of Tonal Rises 
and Falls for Accentuation and Phrasing in Swedish", Proceedings of 
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 1998, Sydney. 
- 1 House D., Hermes D. & Beaugendre F., (1998) : "Perceptual of Tonal Rises 
and Falls for Accentuation and Phrasing : Swedish Listeners Results.", 
Proceedings of Phonetic 1998, Stockholm University, pp. 146-149. 
- 1 Beaugendre F., House D. & Hermes D. (1997) : "Accentuation boundaries in 
Dutch, French and Swedish.", Proceedings of ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop 
on Intonation, 18-20 sept., 1997, Athens, Greece, pp. 43-46. 
- 1 House D., Hermes D. & Beaugendre F., (1997) : "Temporal aligment of 
accentuation boundaries in Dutch.", Proceedings of ESCA Tutorial and Research 
Workshop on Intonation, 18-20 sept., 1997, Athens, Greece. 
- 1 House D., Hermes D. & Beaugendre F., (1997) : "Temporal-aligment categories 
of accentuation lending pitch movements.", Proceedings of European Conference 
on Speech Communication and Technology, 22-25 sept., 1997, Rhodos, Greece, 
pp.879-882. 
- 1 Beaugendre F. & Hermes D.J. (1996) : "De la relation entre le timing des 
mouvements mélodiques et l'accentuation.", Proceedings of 21èmes 
Journées d'étude sur la parole, 10-14 juin, 1996, Avignon, 
France, pp.183-186.
- 1 Beaugendre F. (1995) : "Generating French intonation at different speaking 
rates.", Proceedings of European Conference on Speech Communication and 
Technology, 18-21 sept., 1995, Madrid, Spain, vol.1, pp.603-606. 
- 1 d'Alessandro C., Mertens P. & Beaugendre F. (1994) : "Automatic 
stylisation of intonation: application to speech synthesis", Proceedings of 2nd 
ESCA/IEEE Workshop on synthesis, 12-15 sept., 1994, New Paltz, New York, USA, 
pp.155-158. 
- 1 Beaugendre F., Lacheret A. (1993) : "Automatic Generation of French 
intonation based on a perceptual study and morpho-syntactic information", 
Proceedings of European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, 
21-23 sept., 1993, Berlin, Germany, vol.2, pp.1219-1222. 
- [20] Beaugendre F., d'Alessandro C., Lacheret A., Terken J. (1992) : "A 
perceptual study of French intonation", Proceedings of International Conference 
of Spoken Language Processing, 12-16 oct., 1992, Banff, Canada, pp.379-742.
- 1 Beaugendre F. (1992) : "Une étude perceptive de l'intonation du 
français", Proceedings of Séminaire Prosodie du GDR-PRC, 21-22 oct., 
1992, Aix-en-Provence, France, pp.25-31. 
- [22] Beaugendre F., d'Alessandro C., Lacheret A., Terken J. (1992) : "Un 
inventaire de mouvements mélodiques en Français". Proceedings of 
19èmes Journées d'étude sur la parole, 19-22 mai, 1992, 
Brussels, Belgium, pp.351-356.