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Luís Caldas de Oliveira was born in Lisbon, 1962, received the Licenciado, Mestre, Doutor degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the Technical University of Lisbon (1985, 1989, 1997). For over 25 years, he has been teaching courses on circuit theory, signal theory, signal processing, speech processing to students of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering at IST. Since 2009 he has also been teaching courses on entrepreneurship and technology transfer. From 1985 to 2000 he was researcher of INESC and is now a member of the Spoken Language Systems Laboratory of INESC-ID. His Master and PhD thesis were on the area of speech processing and, particularly, in speech synthesis and production. In 1991 he co-authored DIXI system, the first text-to-speech synthesizer for European Portuguese. An updated version of this system is currently being sold by Voiceinteraction S.A.. From 1991 through 1993, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ, on modelling and analysis of the glottal flow and its applications to text-to-speech synthesis. He has been involved on several research and technology transfer projects, sponsored by the industry, the Portuguese Science Foundation and the European Commission. Among them: SVIT (1995-1999), the automation of the directory assistance service of Portugal Telecom, CITE-IV (1999-2000) augmentative communication tools, Tecnovoz (2006-2008) and E-Circus (2006-2008) education through characters with emotional intelligence. In 2008 he was a co-founder of Voiceinteraction S.A.. From 2004 to 2009 he was the Director of Finance and Administration of INESC-ID. During his term, INESC-ID budget changed from 1.9 M€ (2003) to 4.1 M€ (2009) and spun-off 4 start-up companies. Since 2009 he is a Member of the Executive Board of IST where he is responsible for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Relations. In this position he put in place the technology transfer area of IST, including the creation of the corporate partnerships unit and the intellectual property unit. In 2004 he received the Scientific Merit Award “Maria Cândida da Cunha” for his contribution in improving the living and social skills of people with disabilities by co-authoring the text predictor "Eugénio, o Génio das Palavras". He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and Ordem dos Engenheiros. He likes to read and to fix things even if they are not broken. Follow him at @LuisCaldasO or see his profile on Linkedin.

Luís Caldas de Oliveira nasceu em Lisboa, 1962, recebeu os graus de Licenciado, Mestre e Doutor em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores pelo Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) da Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (1985, 1989 e 1997). Há mais de 25 anos que ensina disciplinas de teoria dos circuitos, teoria dos sinais, processamento de sinal, processamento de fala aos cursos de Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Engenharia Informática e Engenharia Aeroespacial. Desde 2009 tem também lecionado cursos de empreendedorismo e transferência de tecnologia. De 1985 a 2000 foi investigador do INESC e é agora membro do Laboratório de Sistemas de Língua Falada do INESC-ID. As suas teses de Mestrado e de Doutoramento foram na área do processamento da fala e, em particular, em síntese e produção de fala. Em 1991, foi coautor do sistema DIXI, o primeiro sintetizador de fala para Português Europeu. Uma versão actualizada desse sistema é presentemente comercializada pela Voiceinteraction S.A.. Entre 1991 e 1993 trabalhou nos AT&T Bell Laboratories, em Murray Hill NJ, na modelação e análise do fluxo glotal e a sua aplicação à síntese de fala. Esteve envolvido em diversos projetos de investigação e transferência de tecnologia patrocinados indústria, pela Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia e pela Comissão Europeia. Entre eles destacam-se: SVIT (1995-1999), a automação do serviço de informação de assinantes da Portugal Telecom, CITE-IV (1999-2000) ferramentas de comunicação aumentativa, Tecnovoz (2006-2008) e E -Circus (2006-2008) educação através de personagens com inteligência emocional. Em 2008 foi co-fundador da Voiceinteraction S.A.. Entre 2004 e 2009 foi o Diretor do INESC-ID para as Finanças e Administração. Durante o seu mandato, o orçamento INESC-ID mudou de 1,9 M € (2003) para 4,1 M € (2009), tendo sido criadas quatro novas empresas. Desde 2009, é Membro do Conselho de Gestão do IST para o Empreendedorismo e Relações Empresariais. Nessa posição, reorganizou a área de transferência de tecnologia do IST, incluindo a criação dos núcleos de parcerias empresariais e de propriedade intelectual. Em 2004 recebeu o Prémio de Mérito Científico "Maria Cândida da Cunha" pela sua contribuição na melhoria das condições de vida e nas competências sociais de pessoas com deficiência pela coautoria do preditor de texto "Eugénio, o Génio das Palavras". É membro do Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), da International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) e da Ordem dos Engenheiros. Gosta de ler e de consertar coisas mesmo que não estejam estragadas. Pode segui-lo em @LuisCaldasO ou ver o seu perfil no Linkedin.

Publications

Book Chapters

2000

• Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, A Escrita das Escritas, chapter Da Escrita à Fala - Da Fala à Escrita, Fundação Portuguesa das Comuni, October 2000

International Journals

2016

• Luís Filipe Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, David Martins de Matos, Evaluating pictogram prediction in a location-aware augmentative and alternative communication system, Assistive Technology, Taylor & Francis, vol. 28, n. 2, pages 83-92, doi: 10.1080/10400435.2015.1092181, April 2016

2015

• Luís Filipe Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, David Martins de Matos, Measuring the Performance of a Location-Aware Text Prediction System, Transactions on Accessible Computing, ACM, vol. 7, n. 1, doi: 10.1145/2739998, June 2015

2014

• Luís Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, David Martins de Matos, Word and Sentence Prediction: Using the best of the two worlds to assist AAC users, Technology and Disability, IOS Press, vol. 26, n. 2, pages 79-91, doi: 10.3233/TAD-140406, November 2014

2009

• Dárcio Gonçalves Silva, Luís C. Oliveira, Mário Andrea, Jitter Estimation Algorithms for Detection of Pathological Voices, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2009, pages 9 pages, doi: 10.1155/2009/567875, December 2009

2003

• M. C. Viana, Luís C. Oliveira, A. I. Mata, Prosodic Phrasing: Machine and Human Evaluation, International Journal of Speech Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol. 6, n. 1, pages 83-94, January 2003

International Conferences

2014

• Luís Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, David Martins de Matos, What Can We Do To Make AAC Devices Configuration Easier?, In ISAAC Conference 2014, International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Commu, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2014

2013

• Luís Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, David Martins de Matos, Word and Sentence Prediction: Using the Best of the Two Worlds to Assist AAC Users, In 12th European AAATE Conference, IOS Press, Vilamoura, Portugal, September 2013

2012

• Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black, Intent Transfer in Speech-to-Speech Machine Translation, In SLT 2012, IEEE, pages 153-158, Miami FL, USA, December 2012

• Gopala Anumanchipalli, Hugo Meinedo, Miguel Bugalho, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan Black, Text-dependent pathological voice detection, In Interspeech 2012, ISCA, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., September 2012

2011

• Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli, Luís C. Oliveira, Alan W. Black, A Statistical Phrase/Accent Model for Intonation Modeling, In Interspeech 2011, ISCA, pages 1813-1816, Florence, Italy, August 2011

2008

• Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira, Luís C. Oliveira, Comparison of Phonetic Segmentation Tools for European Portuguese, In PROPOR 2008 - 8th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Springer-Verlag, vol. 5190, series LNAI, pages 252-255, Aveiro, Portugal, September 2008

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Carlos Miguel Duarte Mendes, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira, Renato Márcio de França Cassaca, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Helena Moniz, DIXI - A Generic Text-to-Speech System for European Portuguese, In PROPOR 2008 - 8th International Conference on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Springer-Verlag, vol. 5190, series LNAI, pages 91-100, Aveiro, Portugal, September 2008

• Luís C. Oliveira, Sérgio Paulo, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira, Carlos Miguel Duarte Mendes, The INESC-ID Blizzard Entry: Unsupervised Voice Building and Synthesis, In Blizzard Challenge 2008, Brisbane, Australia, September 2008

• Luís C. Oliveira, Sérgio Paulo, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira, Carlos Miguel Duarte Mendes, Ana Nunes, Joaquim Godinho, Methodologies for Designing and Recording Speech Databases for Corpus Based Synthesis, In LREC 2008, The sixth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, May 2008

2007

• Christian Weiss, Sérgio Paulo, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira, Luís C. Oliveira, Blizzard Entry: Integrated Voice Building and Synthesis for Unit-Selection TTS, In Blizzard 2007, ISCA, Bonn, August 2007

• Christian Weiss, Luís C. Oliveira, Sérgio Paulo, Carlos Miguel Duarte Mendes, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira, Marco Vala, Pedro Sequeira, Ana Paiva, Thurid Vogt, Elisabeth Andre, ECIRCUS: Building Voices for Autonomous Speaking Agents, In 6th Speech Synthesis Workshop, ISCA, Bonn, August 2007

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, MuLAS: A Framework For Automatically Building Multi-Tier Corpora, In Interspeech, ISCA, Antwerp, August 2007

• Guilherme Coelho Barreira Raimundo, João Cabral, Celso Melo, Luís C. Oliveira, Ana Paiva, Isabel Trancoso, Telling Stories with a Synthetic Character: Understanding Inter-modalities Relations, In COST Action 2102 International Workshop on Verbal and Nonverbal Communication Behaviours, Springer, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence, pages 310-323, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, March 2007

2006

• João Cabral, Luís C. Oliveira, EmoVoice: a System to Generate Emotions in Speech, In Interspeech'2006, ISCA, Pittsburgh, September 2006

• Guilherme Coelho Barreira Raimundo, João Cabral, Celso Melo, Luís C. Oliveira, Ana Paiva, Storytelling - The Difference Between Fantasy and Reality, In IVA 2006, Springer, vol. 4133, series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 464, California, USA, August 2006

• João Cabral, Luís C. Oliveira, Guilherme Coelho Barreira Raimundo, Ana Paiva, What voice do we expect from a synthetic character?, In SPECOM'2006, pages 536-539, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2006

2005

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Generation of Word Alternative Pronunciations Using Weighted Finite State Transducers, In Interspeech'2005, ISCA, pages 1157-1160, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005

• João Cabral, Luís C. Oliveira, Pitch-Synchronous Time-Scaling for High-Frequency Excitation Regeneration, In Interspeech'2005, ISCA, pages 1513-1516, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005

• João Cabral, Luís C. Oliveira, Pitch-Synchronous Time-Scaling for Prosodic and Voice Quality Transformations, In Interspeech'2005, ISCA, pages 1137-1140, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Reducing the Corpus-based TTS Signal Degradation Due to Speaker's Word Pronunciations, In Interspeech'2005, ISCA, pages 1089-1092, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2005

2004

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Automatic Phonetic Alignment and Its Confidence Measures, In 4th International Conference EsTAL 2004, Springer, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 36-44, Alicante, Spain, October 2004

• Luis Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, Quantitative Evaluation of a Portuguese Word Predictor, In 11th Biennial Conference of the Int. Soc. for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Natal, Brazil, October 2004

2003

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, DTW-based Phonetic Alignment Using Multiple Acoustic Features, In EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Genéve, Switzerland, September 2003

• João Paulo da Silva Neto, Nuno J. Mamede, Renato Márcio de França Cassaca, Luís C. Oliveira, The Development of a Multi-purpose Spoken Dialogue System, In EUROSPEECH'2003 - 8th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Genéve, Switzerland, September 2003

• Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, WFST based Unit Selection for Concatenative Speech Synthesis in European Portuguese, In ICPhS'2003 - 15th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, August 2003

• Hugo dos Santos Gabriel Correia Pereira, Pedro Vergílio Portugal Teixeira, Luís C. Oliveira, Email2Vmail - An Email Reader, In PROPOR'2003 (VI Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language), Springer, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, pages 189-192, Faro, Portugal, June 2003

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Improving the Accuracy of the Speech Synthesis Based Phonetic Alignment Using Multiple Acoustic Features, In Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language - Proc. of the 6th Intl. Workshop, PROPOR 2003, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence, pages 31-39, Faro, Portugal, June 2003

• Ricardo Ribeiro, Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel Trancoso, Using Morphossyntactic Information in TTS Systems: Comparing Strategies for European Portuguese, In PROPOR'2003 - 6th Workshop on Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, series Lecture Notes in Artificial Inteligence, pages 143-150, Faro, Portugal, June 2003

2002

• Diamantino António Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Grapheme-to-Phone Using Finite-State Transducers, In 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Santa Monica, California, September 2002

• Sérgio Paulo, Luís C. Oliveira, Multilevel Annotation Of Speech Signals Using Weighted Finite State Transducers, In 2002 IEEE Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Santa Monica, California, September 2002

• Ricardo Ribeiro, Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel Trancoso, Morphossyntactic Disambiguation for TTS Systems, In Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002), Las Palmas, Spain, May 2002

2001

• Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Luís C. Oliveira, Ana I. Mata, Prosodic Phrasing: Machine and Human Evaluation, in Proc. of SSW4, In 4th ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop, Pitlochry, Scotland, August 2001

1998

• Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel Trancoso, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Concatenative Speech Synthesis for European Portuguese, In Third ESCA/COCOSDA International Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Jenolan Caves, Australia, November 1998

1995

• Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel Trancoso, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, A Text-to-Speech Syntesizer Adapted to the Needs of Motor and Speech Handicapped People, In European Conference on the Adavncement of Rehabilitation Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, October 1995

1994

• Isabel Trancoso, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Fernando Henrique Corte Real Mira da Silva, Gonçalo Marques, Luís C. Oliveira, Rule-Based vs. Neural Network Based Approaches to Letter-to-Phone Conversion for Portuguese Common and Proper Names, In ICSLP'94 - Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan, September 1994

1993

• Luís C. Oliveira, Estimation of Source Parameters by Frequency Analysis, In EUROSPEECH, pages 22-25, Berlin, Germany, September 1993

1992

• Luís C. Oliveira, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, A Rule-Based Text-to-Speech System for Portuguese, In ICASSP 1992 - Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, IEEE, San Francisco, California, USA, March 1992

1991

• Filipe Carlos, J. P. Carmona, P. M. Chagas, Luís C. Oliveira, António Joaquim Serralheiro, Isabel Trancoso, A Recognition/Synthesis System Applied to Data Base Access through the Telephone Network, In EUROSPEECH'91 - European Conference on Speech Technology, ESCA, Genoa, Italy, September 1991

• Luís C. Oliveira, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, DIXI - Portuguese Text-to-Speech System, In EUROSPEECH'91 - European Conference on Speech Technology, ESCA, Genoa, Italy, September 1991

1990

• Isabel Trancoso, Carlos Eduardo Meneses Ribeiro, Luís Henrique Martins Borges de Almeida, Luís C. Oliveira, J. S. Marques, CELP - A Candidate for GSM Half-Rate Coding, In ICASSP'90 - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A., April 1990

National Journals

1996

• Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel Trancoso, Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Sistema de Síntese de Fala a Partir de Texto - DIXI, Revista Áudio: Dinamização Cultural, December 1996

National Conferences

2019

• Luís Filipe Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, David Martins de Matos, Eugénio V3 – Predição de Texto com Adaptação à Localização, In Jornadas SUPERA 2019, Leiria, May 2019

2005

• Isabel Trancoso, Diamantino António Caseiro, Nuno J. Mamede, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Luís C. Oliveira, António Joaquim Serralheiro, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Building Spoken Language Systems, In 5th Conference on Telecommunications, Tomar, Portugal, April 2005

2004

• Luis Garcia, Luís C. Oliveira, Disposições de Teclas para Aceleração da Escrita de Textos em Português com Selecção por Varrimento, In 1ª Conferência Nacional em Interacção Pessoa-Máquina, Lisboa, July 2004

1999

• Rui Pedro Batoreo Amaral, Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Diamantino António Caseiro, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Anotação Fonética Automática de Corpora de Fala Transcritos Ortograficamente, In PROPOR'99 - IV Encontro para o Processamento Computacional da Língua Portuguesa Escrita e Falada, Évora, Portugal, September 1999

• Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, DIXI - A Síntese de Fala Como Auxiliar da Comunicação e da Aprendizagem, In 1as Jornadas Europeias Escola Inclusiva - Aprendizagem da leitura e Escrita, Lisbon, Portugal, May 1999

1998

• Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, Maria Isabel de Vilhena Mascarenhas, Inês Duarte, Gabriela Matos, Luís C. Oliveira, Henriqueta Campos, Clara Correia, Apresentação do Projecto CORAL - Corpus de Diálogo Etiquetado, In 1º Workshop de Linguística Computacional, Lisbon, Portugal, May 1998

• Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Automatic Segment Alignment for Concatenative Speech Synthesis in Portuguese, In RECPAD'98 - 10th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Li, March 1998

• Ciro Alexandre Domingues Martins, Maria Isabel de Vilhena Mascarenhas, Hugo Meinedo, João Paulo da Silva Neto, Luís C. Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo Meneses Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Spoken Language Corpora for Speech Recognition and Synthesis in European Portuguese, In RECPAD'98 - 10th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition, Lisbon, Portugal, March 1998

1995

• Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, Maria Isabel de Vilhena Mascarenhas, Carlos Eduardo Meneses Ribeiro, Luís C. Oliveira, Corpora de Fala do PE: Constituição, Segmentação e Etiquetagem, In XI Encontro Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisbon, Portugal, October 1995

1994

• Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Paulo J. Lopes, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, E-mail to Voice-mail Conversion Using a Portuguese Text-to-Speech System, In ICSLP'94 - Int. Conf. on Spoken Language Processing, Yokohama, Japan, September 1994

• Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho, Paulo J. Lopes, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Aplicação de Síntese de Fala a Partir de Texto à leitura Oral de Mensagens de Correio Electrónico, In 1º Encontro Nacional do Colégio de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Lisbon, Portugal, May 1994

• Gonçalo Marques, Isabel Trancoso, Luís C. Oliveira, António Joaquim Serralheiro, Automatização de Serviços de Informação Telefónica, In 1º Encontro Nacional do Colégio de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Lisbon, Portugal, May 1994

• Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, Fernando Henrique Corte Real Mira da Silva, Gonçalo Marques, Ernesto Andrade, Luís C. Oliveira, Sobre a Pronúncia de Nomes Próprios, Siglas e Acrónimos em Português Europeu, In Congresso Internacinal sobre o Português, Lisbon, Portugal, April 1994

1993

• Luís C. Oliveira, Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Isabel Trancoso, DIXI: Sistema de Síntese de Fala a Prtir de Texto para o Português, In EPLP'93 - 1º Encontro de Processamento da Língua Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal, February 1993

1992

• Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Ernesto Andrade, Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel Trancoso, Uma Questão de Equilíbrio, In Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisbon, Portugal, October 1992

1991

• Maria do Céu Guerreiro Viana Ribeiro, Luís C. Oliveira, Ernesto Andrade, Isabel Trancoso, Ler_Pe: Um Utensílio para o Estudo da Ortografia do Português, In Encontro da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, Lisbon, Portugal, October 1991

Technical Reports

1994

• Luís C. Oliveira, Isabel Trancoso, Gonçalo Marques, Composição de Palavras em Português Usando um Teclado Numérico, Tech. Rep. 3 / 1994 INESC-ID Lisboa, March 1994

Doctoral Theses

1996

• Luís C. Oliveira, Síntese de Fala a Partir de Texto, PhD thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, October 1996

PhD theses

Finished

• Toward a Context-Aware Augmentative and Alternative Communication System for European Portuguese, Luís Filipe Nobre Horta Baptista Garcia. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2006-2018). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor. David Martins de Matos, co-advisor.

• Intra-Lingual and Cross-Lingual Prosody Modelling, Gopala Krishna Anumanchipalli. (2010-2013). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor. Alan W Black, co-advisor.

• Automatic Methods for Building Speech Synthesis Corpora, Sérgio Paulo. Instituto Superior Técnico (2001-2009). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• Determinação Automática de Segmentos para Síntese de Fala por Concatenação, Pedro Miguel Monteiro Lages de Carvalho. Instituto Superior Técnico (1993-2004). Isabel Trancoso, advisor. Luís C. Oliveira, co-advisor.

MSc theses

Finished

• Medidas de Confiança na Segmentação Automática, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira. IST, UTLisbon (2006-2008). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• Small Footprint Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Carlos Miguel Duarte Mendes. IST, UTLisbon (2006-2008). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• Voice Source Assessment - Jitter Evaluation on Normal and Pathological Voices, Dárcio Gonçalves Silva. Inst. Sup. Técnico (2008). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor. Mário Andrea, co-advisor.

• Transforming Prosody and Voice Quality to Generate Emotions in Speech, João Cabral. Instituto Superior Técnico (2003-2006). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• Concepção, Implementação e Teste de um Sistema de Apoio à Comunicação Aumentativa e Alternativa para o Português Europeu, Luis Filipe Nobre Horta Baptista Garcia. Instituto Superior Técnico (2001-2003). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

Graduation theses

Finished

• VoiceBuilder - Construção de novas vozes para síntese de fala, André Manuel Inácio dos Santos, Luís António Dias Mestre Figueira. IST, UTLisbon (2004-2006). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• Voicedub - Sincronização Labial Automática, Carlos Miguel Duarte Mendes. (2004-2005). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• Sintetizador de Canto em Português, Parul Hemendra, Rohit Jayendra. Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa (2002-2004). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor. David Martins de Matos, co-advisor.

• "Xintejador" Síntese de fala com voz de criança, Hugo Manuel Tavares Marques Dias, Nuno de Vilardouro Paiva. Instituto Superior Técnico (2001-2003). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• email2vmail - Leitor de mensagens de correio eletrónico, Pedro Vergílio Portugal Teixeira, Hugo dos Santos Gabriel Correia Pereira. Instituto Superior Técnico (2001-2003). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor. Isabel Trancoso, co-advisor.

• Utilização de fala para preenchimento de formulários num PDA, Armando Marques, Sofia Valente. Instituto Superior Técnico (2002-2003). João Paulo da Silva Neto, advisor. Luís C. Oliveira, co-advisor.

• Síntese de Fala com o Modelo Harmónico mais Ruído, Filipa Bernardo Gamboa Figueira. Instituto Superior Técnico (1999-2001). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

• Ressurreição de Actores, David José Matos Palma. Instituto Superior Técnico (1999-2000). Luís C. Oliveira, advisor.

Research Interests

• Speech Synthesis
• Voice Source Modeling
• Spoken Language Processing
• Alternative and Augmentative Communication
• Signal Processing

Past Projects

• LIREC - LIving with Robots and InteractivE Companions (2008-2012)
• COST-2103 - Advanced Voice Function Assessment (2006-2010)
• E-Circus - Education through Characters with Emotional Intelligence and Role-playing Capabilities that Understand Social Interaction (2006-2008)
• Tecnovoz - Tecnologia de Reconhecimento e Síntese de Voz (2006-2008)
• NLE GRID - Natural Language Engineering on a Computational Grid (2005-2007)
• WFST - Weighted Finite State Transducers Applied to Spoken Language Processing (2004-2007)
• PAPOUS - The Story Teller (2003-2005)
• CITE-IV - Augmentative Communication Tools in Portuguese (1999-2000)
• DIXI+ - A Text-to-Speech Synthesizer in Portuguese for Alternative and Augmentative Communication (1999-2001)
• SPEECHDAT - Speech Databases for for Creation of Voice Driven Teleservices (1994-1999)
• BDFALA (in Portuguese) - Spoken Database for European Portuguese (1994-1998)

Ongoing Projects

• IF4TM - Institutional framework for development of the third mission of universities in Serbia [1]
• MIND - Management, INnovation, Development [2]
• CRE:HUB - Policies for cultural CREative industries: the HUB for innovative regional development [3]