Once they were young (Thierry Dutoit and Vincent Pagel)
At that time Mbrola was called Mbrpsola...
At that time (1994) I was a colorfull CRIN-INRIA researcher
The conferences I've been to:
Summer school on prosody 1993 London
Journees d'etude de la parole 1994 Tregastel
International Conference on Phonetic Science 1995 Stockholm
Journees d'etude de la parole 1996 Avignon
International Conference on Spoken Language Processing 1996 Philadelphia
Information Technology European Award 1996 Brussel
Eurospeech 1997 Rhodos
ICSLP 1998 Sydney
ICSLP 1998 Sydney (from left to right: Vincent Pagel, Kevin Lenzo and Thierry Dutoit
My phd thesis:
Phd thesis, November 1999 Nancy/France (from left to right: Thierry Dutoit, Piet Mertens, Noelle Carbonelle and Vincent Pagel)
(Yves Laprie)
June 2000, LREC2000 Athens Greece
December 2000: Portland USA
The funky-looking boss I miss, Mike Macon (left), and from left to right Alexander Kain, Vincent Pagel
Visit of Abe Masanobu (center), from left to right: Vincent Pagel, Johan Wouters, Abe Masanobu, Alexander Kain, Paul Hosom
September 2002: IEEE Workshop on Speech synthesis, Santa Monica, USA
IEEE on speech synthesis, biggest meeting on earth of people with mbrolized voices: from left to right, Piero Cosi (IT1), Vincent Pagel (FR3), Céline Egéa (FR2), Baris Bozkurt (TR1), Thierry Dutoit (FR1), Yoram Meron (HB1), Koji Iwano (JP1)
September 2003: Eurospeech Geneva
Eurospeech in a pub with Fabrice Malfrere (FR5)
September 2007: Eurospeech Antwerpen
Brainstorming with Fabrice Malfrere and Thierry Dutoit