Thierry Dutoit
Scholar

Thierry Dutoit

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Université de Mons
Media Art TechnologySpeech and audio ProcessingBiological Signal Processing
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,410
 
H-index
30
 
i10-index
85
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
68
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Author of several books on Speech Synthesis and Applied Signal Processing.
  • - Published over 40 journal papers and more than 120 conference papers on speech processing, biomedical signal processing, and creative technology.
  • - Holds 7 patents.
  • - Founded or co-founded multiple companies and institutes, including ACAPELA-GROUP (1996), NUMEDIART Institute (2009), FABLAB MONS (2014), and CLICK Living Lab (2016).
Research Experience
  • - Initiated the MBROLA project for multilingual speech synthesis in 1995.
  • - Spent 16 months at AT&T-Bell Labs in Murray Hill (NJ) and Florham Park (NJ) between 1996 and 1998.
  • - Served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2003-2006).
  • - President of ISCA's SynSIG interest group on speech synthesis (2007-2010).
  • - Initiated the eNTERFACE summer workshops on Multimodal Interfaces (2005 onwards).
Education
  • Graduated from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (now UMONS) with a degree in electrical engineering in 1988 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1993.
Background
  • Electrical engineer and Ph.D., with research interests in circuit theory, signal processing, and speech processing. Graduated from the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (now UMONS), Belgium, in 1988 and 1993 respectively. He teaches Circuit Theory, Signal Processing, and Speech Processing at UMONS.
Miscellany
  • Very much involved in the development of AI at UMONS. Co-founder of the TRAIL inter-university Institute for Trusted Artificial Intelligence.