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Inma Hernáez Rioja

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Inma Hernáez Rioja received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain, in 1995.

She is currently Full Professor with the Department of Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao, University of the Basque Country, where she is involved in the area of signal theory and communications, and member and Director of the Aholab Signal Processing Laboratory. She is also a Board member of Hitz. Her research interests include signal processing and all aspects related to speech processing. She is interested in the development of speech resources and technologies for the Basque language as well as application of speech technologies to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities.

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Projects and funding
Teaching
Dissemination
Conferences, seminars and invited talks
Other activities
Projects and funding

Current Projects

Title Funder Rol Participants Start/End
European Language Equality (ELE) European Union Researcher ADAPT Centre (Coord.) and 53 members 2021/01-2022/06
Restauración de voz con interfaces emg de habla silenciosa Ministerio de Ciencia e innovación Project PI Aholab(Coord.), UGR 2020/07-2023/06
Aholab-GTTS: Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group (Ayudas a Grupos de Investigación) – Grupo B Basque Government PI Aholab, GTTS 2022/01-2025/12

Past Projects

Title Funder Rol Participants Start/End
Finished in 2021
Aholab-GTTS: Audio, Speech and Language Processing Group (Ayudas a Grupos de Investigación) – Grupo A Basque Government PI Aholab, GTTS 2019/01-2021/12
Aprendizaje profundo aplicado a voces patológicas Basque Government PI Aholab 2018/09-2021/06
Thematic Network on Speech Technologies Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad Participant UPV (Coord.) 2017/01-2021/12
Finished in 2020
MINTZAI: Sistemas de Aprendizaje Profundo E2E para Traducción Automática del Habla Basque Government Researcher Vicomtech(Coord.) AmetzagainaAholab-GTTS ISEA 2019/01-2020/12
Transferencia y sorporte a la puesta en marcha de un sistema automático de detección y clasificación de eventos sonoros basado en redes neuronales MERCEDES-BENZ ESPAÑA, S.A. Researcher Aholab 2020/07-2020/12
Enriched communication across the lifespan MSC-ITN – EU Researcher UPV/EHU (Coord.),15 participants 2016/10-2020/09
Finished in 2019
Ayudas a los grupos de investigación en la UPV/EHU (GIU 16/32) UPV/EHU PI Aholab 2017/01-2019/12
Deep Learning aplicado al Procesamiento del Lenguaje Natural como apoyo a los ámbitos del RIS3 Basque Government Local PI Elhuyar(Coord.), Vicomtech, IXA,AholabTecnalia 2019/01-2019/12
UmeTTS: Voz infantil sintética para comunicación aumentativa y alternativa UPV/EHUBj-Adaptaciones Researcher Aholab 2019/01-2019/12
Finished in 2018
RESTORE: Restauración, almacenamiento y rehabilitación de la voz Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad PI Aholab(Coord.) Biocruces 2016/01-2018/12
Analisis de la calidad sonora de los vehículos para su evaluación automática Mercedes Benz España, S.A. Researcher Aholab 2017/02-2018/12
Finished in 2017
BERBAOLA: Tecnologías de la Lengua y el Habla aplicadas a los ámbitos del RIS3 Basque Government Researcher Elhuyar(Coord.) Vicomtech Aholab, IXA, Tecnalia 2017/01-2017/12
Thematic Network on Speech Technologies Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad Participant Unizar (Coord.) 2015/01-2017/12
Finished in 2015
INVESTIGACION AVANZADA EN TECNOLOGIAS DEL HABLA PARA LA INCLUSION (SPEECHTECH4ALL, TEC2012-38939-C03-03) MINECO PI UVigo (Coord.) UPCAholab 2013/01-2015/12
Tecnologías de la Lengua y el Habla para un Territorio Inteligente, Industrial, Inclusivo y Multilingüe Basque Government Researcher Elhuyar(Coord.) Vicomtech Aholab, IXA, Tecnalia 2015/01-2015/12
Ayudas para apoyar las actividades de grupos de investigación del sistema universitario vasco Basque Government PI Aholab 2013/01-2015/12
Finished in 2014
Iparrahotsa: desarrollo de una voz sintética para el euskera estándar de Iparralde. Eurorregion Aquitania-Euskadi Project PI AholabIKER (CNRS-UR) 2013/01-2014/11
Ber2Tek: Tecnologías de la lengua, de voz y multimedia al servicio de la Industria de las Lenguas Basque Government Researcher Elhuyar(Coord.) Vicomtech Aholab, IXA, Tecnalia 2012/01-2014/12
Finished in 2013
ZURETTS+: Sistema multilingüe para la obtención de voces sintéticas personalizadas orientado a personas con discapacidad oral Basque Government Researcher Aholab 2013/01-2013/12
Tecnologías del habla para el aprendizaje de segundas lenguas (L2_IKASI) Basque Government Researcher Aholab 2012/01-2013/12
Finished in 2012
ZURETTS: Sistema para la obtención de voces sintéticas personalizadas orientado a personas con discapacidad oral Basque Government PI Aholab 2011/07-2012/12
Ayudas para apoyar las actividades de grupos de investigación del sistema universitario vasco Basque Government PI Aholab 2010/01-2012/12
Televisión social – Low-Cost Telebista Basque Government PI 15 2010/01-2012/12
BUCEADOR Búsqueda de Información en Contenidos Audiovisuales Plurilingues Min. Industria, Comercio y Turismo Researcher UVigoUPC (Coord.)Aholab 2010/01-2012/12
Finished in 2011
BERBATEK: Herramientas y tecnologías para el impulso de la industria de la lengua Basque Government Researcher Elhuyar(Coord.) Vicomtech Aholab, IXA, Tecnalia 2009/01-2011/12
Prototipo de verificación de mensajes para la enseñanza de idiomas UPV/EHUDidaktiker, SA PI AholabDidaktiker, SA 2009/01-2011/12
Finished in 2010
“C-EXTRACTOR”, Plataforma de extracción automática de conocimiento a partir de fuentes de información estructuradas Ministerio de Industria y Comercio PI Didaktiker, SAConsultoría Tecnológica para el Comercio Behin betiko S.L.Aholab 2008/07-2010/12
Finished in 2008
“Sistemas multilingües de reconocimiento del locutor> EJIE S.A. Researcher Aholab 2007/11-2008/12
Teaching

2022-2023

Degree Subject Year Faculty ECTS
Erasmus Mundus Master in Language and Communication Technologies (LCT) Speech processing – Faculty of Informatics 9
Máster en Ciencia y Tecnología del Espacio Procesado de datos espaciales – Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao 4.5
Dissemination

Oct 2022 Project explanation at ASLABI (Local laryngectomees association)

We presented our project Ressint at the local Association of Laryngectomees and explained to them why we need their contribution to our database. Here is the presentation.

Feb 2022 Interview at 'maldita twitcheria'

I was interviewed by Patricia Ruiz Guevara, from maldita.es at the program “Cómo se le pone voz a la tecnología: IA y voces sintéticas”.  Here is the full program. I talk about how to obtain synthetic voices with AI and other activities of the laboratory.

July 2021 Interview for the project 'Capaces de Comunicar'

I was interviewed about “La tecnología de las voces artificiales” as part of the project “Capaces de Comunicar” at the “Jornadas internacionales de comunicación aumentativa y alternativa” organizadas por la Universidad Pablo de Olabide (Sevilla).

July 2021 Interview for the Journal 'Bilbao'

I was interviewed for the local journal “Bilbao” about our personalized synthetic voices .

Nov 2020 Interview for Osatuberri

I was interviewed for the journal osatuberri, to explain the Restore project.

Feb 2019 Video in the series 'Zientzialari' from Catedra de Cultura Científica

The Cátedra de cultura científica made a video explaining the applications of speech synthesis technologies for oral disabilities.

Nov 2019 Short talk about Speech Assistants

I took part in the event “Jakinduriek mundue erreko dau!” Bertsolarism and sciences united in the Week of Science. My talk was about Speech Assistants.

Nov 2019 Presentation of our work at ASLABI

2019-Nov-15th I presented the results of the project RESTORE to the members of the Association of Laryngectomees of Bizkaia (ASLABI).

Nov 2017 Presentation of the new project RESTORE at ASLABI

2017-Mar-3th I presented the new project RESTORE to the members of the Association of Laryngectomees of Bizkaia (ASLABI). We presented our goal to develop the database of esophageal voices.

Nov 2015 'Vamos a cantar' in the 'Week of Science'

I gave a short talk about singing speech synthesis at the event ‘Club of science’, during the Week of Science of the UPV/EHU.

Nov 2014 'Esa no soy yo' in the 'Week of Science'

I gave a short talk about speech synthesis synthesis at the event ‘Club of science’, during the Week of Science of the UPV/EHU.

Jan 2014 Invited talk 'When machines talk' (in Basque)

I gave a talk about speech processing and speech synthesis to students from secondary at the “Bizkaia Aretoa“, organized by the “Real Academy of Sciences of the Basque Country (Jakiunde)“.

Dec 2014 Invited talk 'Personalized voices' at Bilbao Exhibition Center

I gave talk about “Creating personalized speech”  at the Euskal Encounter, in the Bilbao Exhibition Center.
Conferences, seminars and invited talks

2023 - Talk at the Human Interactivity and Language Laboratory, University of Warsaw

2023 – Feb -19  Webinar Talk at the Human Interactivity and Language lab about our research with eshophageal voices.

2022 - Participation at the Summer School organized by the University of Santiago de Compostela

2022 – Jul -14. Summer School University of Santiago de Compostela, “Tecnoloxías da linguaxe: as linguas na sociedade e na economía dixitais”, Seminar: “Sintese de voz”

2021 - Talk at Biblioteca de Bidebarrieta: Voces sintéticas personalizadas para dar la palabra a quienes han perdido la voz.

2021 – April -21st. I was invited by the Cátedra de Cúltura Científica of the UPV/EHU gave a talk followed by a discussion at the beautiful old public library of Bilbao “Biblioteca de Bidebarrieta”. The talk can be accessed here.

2020 - Jan Seminar on Speech Synthesis at University of Valencia

2020 – Jan  15 Seminar “Advances on Speech Synthesis” at the PhD Program in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

2019 Sept - Organization of SEPLN 2019

2019-Sept 24th to 27th Chair of SEPLN 2019: XXXV International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language Processing

2019 - May Invited talk at the Faculty of Informatics, UPV/EHU

2019 – May-5 Invited talk “Aholab Signal Processing Lab” at the Faculty of Informatics, UPV/EHU

2019 - Jan Seminar on Speech Synthesis at University of Valencia

2019 – Jan  15 Seminar “Advances on Speech Synthesis” at the PhD Program in the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

2018 - Nov 30th Invited Talk 'Banco de voces. Procesamiento de la voz. Futuro de las ayudas a la comunicación'

2018 – Nov 30 Invited talk “Banco de voces. Procesamiento de la voz. Futuro de las ayudas a la comunicación” at the Workshop “Avances en la rehabilitación de voz en pacientes laringectomizados”, that took place in the “Hospital de Cruces” (Barakaldo, Bizkaia) and was organized by the Association of ORL.

2014, June - July -Organization of enterface'14

2014, Jun-9yh -July-4th, co-chair of enterface’14:  International Summer Workshop on Multimodal Interfaces- ISCA Training School –

2011, June-27 Invited talk at University of Crete

2011, Jun-27 Invited talk at University of Crete, Crete, Greece.
“Use of the Harmonic Phase in several Speech Processing applications”

2009, Nov-26 Invited talk at FTW

2009, Nov-26 Invited talk at FTW, Forschung Telekommunikation Wien, Viena, Austria
“Speech Simple Representation of the signal Phase for Harmonic Speech Models”

2009-2010 Research stay at FTW

From Aug 2009 til Jul 2010 I was staying at FTW as visiting Professor

2008 Nov 11-13 Organization of 'V Jornadas en Tecnología del Habla'

2008, 11th-13th Nov. Chair of V Jornadas en Tecnologías del Habla, Bilbao, Spain.

2008, Nov-12 Invited talk at University of Wien

2008, Nov-12 Invited talk at the University of Wien, Viena, Austria
“Speech Synthesis Research at the Aholab Signal Processing Laboratory”

2006-2011 Participation in COST-2102

2006-Nov to 2011-Nov, national representant for COST 2102, CROSS-MODAL ANALYSIS OF VERBAL AND NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION
Other activities

2023 November Oracle4Girls Talleres presenciales en Bilbao

I took part on these activities by giving a talk to mothers and fathers of girls aged 6-14 titled “¿A qué nos dedicamos las ingenieras de telecomunicación?“

2023 February Celebrating 8th International day of women and girls in Science

To inspire girls (and boys) to engineering, I was with colleagues at the Deustuko Ikastola school, and we show some experiments to students of 3th grade in primary school.

2021 February 8th International day of women and girls in Scienc

In the “International Day of girls and women in Science”, together with my colleague Cristina Perfecto I went to the primary School ”Indautxuko Eskola” and we gave a talk to the boys and girls of the 6th year. We really enjoyed it!

2020 November Fordering Telecom studies among young girls

I took part on the organization of the Seminar “Fomentando las vocaciones femeninas en las telecomunicaciones“, given to secondary school teachers and carrer advisers.

2018-2019 Mentoring in INSPIRA STEAM

From October 2016 till February 2017 I participated for the 1st time in the INSPIRA STEAM project mentoring to 11 years girls and boys at the Primary School Larramendi Ikastola

2017-2018 Mentoring in INSPIRA STEAM

From October 2017 till February 2018 I participated again in the INSPIRA STEAM project mentoring to 11 years old girls at the Primary School Isabel Gallego Gorria

2016-2017 Mentoring in INSPIRA STEAM

From October 2016 till February 2017 I participated for the 1st time in the INSPIRA STEAM project mentoring to 11 years old girls at the Primary School Isabel Gallego Gorria

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