Since 2002 I've been working with Acapela Group (formerly Babel Technologies SA) in Mons/Belgium to develop talking machines. You can try the online demo of our multi-lingual technology demo page.
Previously I spent a wonderful year at Center for Speech and Language Understanding(Portland/Oregon), where I was a postdoctoral associate with Mike Macon and Pr Van Santen.
Even before, I had been working for 4 years with my friend Thierry Dutoit in the speech synthesis team of Mons-Belgium.
Here is my resume and publications. You can also read the abtract and download my Phd Thesis (Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy/France) on prosodic cues for speech recognition in French.
my micro franco belgian MIDI archive 
the motif timidity (real time MIDI software only expander) you're longing to get
Vincent.Pagel@free.fr
Mars 2003