Vincent Pagel worked in the Speech Synthesis Research Group, from 1996 to 2000.
As our "MBROLA officer", he worked on the MBROLA algorithm (he co-owns the patent on it) and managed the creation of MBROLA databases. He also initiated the MBRDICO Project for multilingual corpus-based phonetization.
He co-founded Babel Technologies, s.a., in 1997.
A. BLACK, K. LENZO, V. PAGEL, 1998, "Issues in Building General Letter to Sound Rules", Proc. 3rd ESCA/COCSADA Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Jenolan Caves, Australia, pp. 77-81.
V. PAGEL, A. BLACK, K. LENZO, 1998, "Letter-to-Sound Rules for Accented Lexicon Compression", Proc. ICSLP'98, Sydney, Australia, pp. 252-255.