Thomas Rolland
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Thomas Rolland studied Computer Science, specializing in Artificial Intelligence and pattern recognition. In 2016, he successfully earned his Bachelor of Science degree, followed by a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence in 2018, both from the University of Toulouse 3, France.
He transitioned to Lisbon, Portugal, to pursue a PhD at Inesc-ID and Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. Under the supervision of Professor Alberto Abad, his research focuses on improving automatic speech recognition for children.
He has participated in several noteworthy initiatives such as TAPAS - Training Network on Automatic Processing of Pathological Speech - a European program. Currently, he is part of the ACCELERAT.AI project.
Beyond his primary focus on children's automatic speech recognition, he maintains a broad spectrum of research interests. These encompass robust speech recognition, exploring applications in healthcare, and text-to-speech technologies.
Total Publications: 7
In Proceedings (Author)
- Introduction To Partial Fine-tuning: A Comprehensive Evaluation Of End-to-end Children’s Automatic Speech Recognition Adaptation
Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad,
Interspeech 2024, September 2024 - Shared-Adapters: A Novel Transformer-based Parameter Efficient Transfer Learning Approach For Children’s Automatic Speech Recognition
Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad,
Interspeech 2024, pages 2370-2374, September 2024 - Improved Children’s Automatic Speech Recognition Combining Adapters and Synthetic Data Augmentation
Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad,
ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 12757-12761, IEEE, April 2024 - Exploring Adapters with Conformers for Children’s Automatic Speech Recognition
Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad,
ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pages 12747-12751, IEEE, April 2024 - Multilingual Transfer Learning for Children Automatic Speech Recognition
Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad, Catia Cucchiarini, Helmer Strik,
Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC2022, pages 7314-7320, June 2022 - Transfer Learning-Based Cough Representations for Automatic Detection of COVID-19
Rubén Solera Ureña, Catarina Botelho, Francisco Teixeira, Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad, Isabel Trancoso,
Interspeech 2021, pages 436--440, International Speech Communication Association, August 2021 - The INESC-ID Multi-Modal System for the ADReSS 2020 Challenge
Anna Maria Pompili, Thomas Rolland, Alberto Abad,
Interspeech 2020, October 2020
Total Supervisions: 1
Master's Theses
- Data augmentation based on text-to-speech methods for Portuguese automatic speech recognition
Diogo Pereira
Alberto Abad (advisor), Thomas Rolland (coadvisor)
Master's Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 2024-07-08 - 2025-09-30
Total Projects: 1
National Projects
- ACCELERAT.AI - ACCELERAT.AI
DEFINED AI, IAPMEI, Societal Digital Transformation, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, FFCUL, NOS Comunicações, Devscope - Soluções De Sistemas E Tecnologias De Formação, S.A., INESC-ID Lisboa, FCiências.ID - Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências2023-01-01 - 2025-12-21