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|name=Sylvain Le Beux|
|caption=Sylvain Le Beux|
|image=sylvain_le_beux.jpg|
|program=Post-Doctoral Fellow|
|supervisor=Prof. [[people:Marcelo M. Wanderley]], Prof. [[people:Philippe Depalle]]|
|website=http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~lebeux/|
|email=lebeux [at] music [dot] mcgill [dot] ca|
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===== Funding =====

  * PBEEE Grant as Visiting Researcher from FQRNT

===== Research Interests =====

  * Voice Analysis & Synthesis
  * Prosody & Voice Quality
  * Expressivity in Voice
  * Gesture Control & HCI
  * Digital Music Instruments

===== Academic Background =====

  * M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Signal Processing (CPE Lyon)
  * M.Sc. Embedded Systems & Information Processing (Paris-Sud XI University)
  * PhD from Paris-Sud XI University, Physics Department (Signal Processing)
     * title : "Gestural Control of Prosody and Voice Quality"
     * supervisor : D.R. Christophe d'Alessandro, LIMSI-CNRS 

===== Current Projects =====

  * Haptic Control of Singing Voice Modifications

===== Past Projects =====
  * Gestural Control of Prosody
  * Gestural Control of a Voice Quality Synthesizer
  * ORA project : Augmented Reality with an Organ

===== Publications =====

==== PhD ====
  * Sylvain Le Beux, // Contrôle gestuel de la prosodie et de la qualité vocale //, Université Paris-Sud XI Orsay, France, Décembre 2009
    * Jury : C. d'Alessandro (Dir. de thèse), R. Bresin (examinateur), G. Charbonneau (examinateur), P. Depalle (relecteur), G. Richard (relecteur).

==== Journal Papers ====
  *  (submitted) C. d'Alessandro, A. Rilliard & S. Le Beux, // Chironomic stylization of intonation // Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
  *  C. Jacquemin, R. Ajaj, S. Le Beux, C. d Alessandro, M. Noisternig, B. F. G. Katz, B. Planes. (à paraître) // Organ Augmented Reality: Audio-Graphical Augmentation of a Classical Instrument //, Special Issue of International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics, IJCICG, 2010.
  * N. D'Alessandro, P. Woodruff, Y. Fabre, T. Dutoit, S. Le Beux, B. Doval, C. d'Alessandro // Realtime and accurate musical control of expression in singing synthesis //, in Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces, Vol. 1-1, mars 2007, pp. 31-39,  Springer Berlin/Heidelberg\

==== Conference Papers ====
  * S. Le Beux, B. Doval & C. d'Alessandro, // Issues and Solutions Related to Real-Time TD-PSOLA Implementation // 128th AES Convention, May 2010, London.
  * S. Le Beux, C. d'Alessandro, A. Rilliard, B. Doval, // Calliphony: A system for real-time gestural modification of intonation and rhythm //, Speech Prosody 2010, Chicago.
  * C. d'Alessando, M. Noisternig, S. Le Beux, L. Picinali, B. FG Katz, C. Jacquemin, R. Ajaj, B. Planes, N. Strurmel, N. Delprat. (2009). // The ORA Project: Audio-Visual Live Electronics and the Pipe Organ //. In Proceedings International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2009). Montreal, Canada. August 16-21, 2009.
  * C. Jacquemin, R. Ajaj, S. Le Beux, C. d Alessandro, M. Noisternig, B. F. G. Katz, B. Planes. (2009). // The Glass Organ: Musical Instrument Augmentation for Enhanced Transparency //. In Proceedings 9th International Symposium on SmartGraphics 2009. pp. 179-190. Salamanca, Spain. May 28-30 2009.
  * S. Le Beux, A. Rilliard, C. d'Alessandro // Calliphony: a real-time intonation controller for expressive speech synthesis //, Proc. 6th ISCA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Bonn, Allemagne, 2007.
  * C. d'Alessandro, A. Rilliard, S. Le Beux // Computerized chironomy : evaluation of hand-controlled intonation reiteration //, Proc. INTERSPEECH 2007, pp. 1270-1273, Anvers, Belgique.
  * C. d'Alessandro, N. D'Alessandro, S. Le Beux, B. Doval // Comparing time domain and spectral domain voice source models for gesture controlled vocal instruments //, Proc. 5th International Conference on Voice Phhysiology and Biomechanics (ICVPB'06), pp. 49-52, Tokyo, Japon.
  * S. Le Beux // Modification en temps réel des paramètres prosodiques et de qualité vocale de la parole grâce au contrôle gestuel et les relations entre l'expressivité de la voix et l'intention gestuelle //, Proc. Journées Jeunes Chercheurs en Audition, Acoustique Musicale et Signal Audio 2006, Lyon, France
  * N. D'Alessandro, C. d'Alessandro, S. Le Beux, B. Doval // Real-time CALM Synthesizer: New Approaches in Hands-Controlled Voice Synthesis //, Proc. of New Interfaces for Musical Instruments Intl. Conference 2006, IRCAM, Paris

==== Workshops Proceedings ====
  * N. D'Alessandro, B. Doval, S. Le Beux, P. Woodruff, Y. Fabre // RAMCESS: Realtime and Accurate Musical Control of Expression in Singing Synthesis //, Proc. of eNTERFACE 2006 Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
  *  C. d'Alessandro, N. D'Alessandro, S. Le Beux, J. Simko, F. Cetin, H. Pirker // The Speech Conductor: Gestural Control of Speech Synthesis //, Proc. of eNTERFACE 2005 Workshop, Mons, Belgium

==== Invited Talks ====
  * Christophe d’Alessandro, Sylvain Le Beux, Albert Rilliard (2008). //  Vers un modèle cinématique de la prosodie : chironomie assistée par ordinateur. // EMUS Expressivity in MUsic and Speech, September 25th-26th 2008, Paris, France. 
  * Albert Rilliard, Christophe d’Alessandro, Sylvain Le Beux (2008). //  Computerized Chironomy: from hand gesture in Gregorian singing to hand-controlled synthesis of intonation.// EMUS Expressivity in MUsic and Speech, May 5th 2008, Campinas (Brazil) 
== Reports ==
  * S. Le Beux // Créativité et Education //, Rapport de Mémoire de formation ACTA, ENS Cachan, Septembre 2007.
  * S. Le Beux, // Contrôle Gestuel de la synthèse de parole //, Rapport de Master Recherche SETI, LIMSI-CNRS, 2005.
  * S. Le Beux, // Synthèse de la parole à partir du texte //, Rapport Interne IRCAM, 2004.