Gérard Bailly

Gérard Bailly received his D.E.A. degree in electronics and Ph.D. degree in enginner from INPG, Grenoble, France, in 1981 and 1983, respectively. He is a Senior CNRS Research Director detached at the Institut de la Communication Parlée, Grenoble, France. He is leading there the Talking Machines Team, dedicated to multimodal speech synthesis. He has worked in the field of speech communication for more than 20 years. He coedited Talking Machines: Theories, Models and Designs (Elsevier, 1992) and Improvements in Speech Synthesis (Wiley, 2002). Audiovisual Speech Processing is under preparation with MIT Press. He coorganized the ESCA Autrans Workshop (1991), Journées d’Etudes sur la Parole (Aussois, 2000), Smart Object Conference (Grenoble, 2003), and sOc-EUSAI (Grenoble, 2005). He is a Founder Member of the ISCA SynSIG and SproSIG special interest groups. His current interest is multimodal interaction for pointing to real and virtual objects and to conversational agents using speech, hand and head movements, and eye gaze.

Biography Updated on 23 April 2009

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