Assistant professor
Biography
Marie Tahon is currently Associate Professor at Le Mans University and conducts her research at LIUM (site). She graduated in engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in 2007 and received the M.S. degree in acoustics from the Ecole Centrale & INSA Lyon, in 2007. She received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay) in 2012.
Positions:
- 2017-: assistant professor at LIUM / Le Mans University (Le Mans, France)
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2015-2017: post-doctoral position at IRISA (Lannion, France)
- 2014-2015: post-doctoral position at LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay, France)
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2012-2014: ATER position at LMSSC / CNAM (Paris, France)
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2009-2012: doctoral position at LIMSI-CNRS (Orsay, France)
Her research interests concern expressive speech processing, mainly in the fields of speech synthesis, emotion recognition and speaker identification. She has also developed strong skills in musical acoustics for automatic songs analysis and organology.
Research fields
Expressive speech processing
- Speech synthesis, pronunciation models, pronunciation adaptation
- Classification and modeling of paralinguistic features, Emotion recognition and Affective computing
- Speech signal segmentation and classification, Speaker recognition,
- Perception of emotion, or rhythm in speech,
- Human-Machine Interactions.
Musical Acoustics
- Automated musical analysis tools, Acoustic analysis of song's signals.
- Acoustic imaging, Acoustic radiation of a recorder, Instrumentation (Cylindrical array),
- Artificial mouth for trumpet.
Musical practice
I am a clarinet player and have strong experience in classical music.
I received the French Diplome de Fin d'Etude from Est-Ensemble conservatoires.
I played and still play in several traditional and classical music ensembles
Groupes
- Rumelaj! : musique de l'Est Site du groupe
- ODH72: Orchestre d'Harmonie de la Sarthe Site de l'orchestre
- Fanforale du douzbekisan : écoutez voir
- Rodas de choro, Porto Alegre
- Musique traditionnelle: klezmer, celtique et brésilienne
- Orchestre symphonique, Ensemble de clarinettes, Musique de chambre (Lauréate concours de sonate, 2013)
Contact
email: marie.tahon@univ-lemans.fr