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Personal information
First name(s) / Surname(s)
Address(es)
Francesca / Tini Brunozzi
Nuance Communications Corporated – 6, Via Olivetti, 10148 Torino, Italy
Telephone(s)
+39 011 2913653
E-mail
[email protected]
Nationality
Date of birth
Gender
Mobile: + 39 3487332264
Italian
05.07.1964
Female
Desired employment /
Occupational field Speech Specialist / Speech Synthesis R&D / TTS Professional
Services
Work experience
Dates
Occupation or position held
Main activities and
responsibilities
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Francesca Tini Brunozzi
from May 2002 to February 2012
Speech Specialist c/o Loquendo S.p.A. (Torino) in the team of Speech Synthesis for
the research and the development of TTS.
- pre-processing of audio signal (endpoint, declicking, filtering and normalization);internal trainer for a TTS linguistic consultant.
- check of acoustic and phonetic match;
- development of acoustic training models;
- retrieving and the compilation of phonetic speaker dependent rules;
- production of the following synthesis voices of Loquendo: Matteo, Giulia, Federica
(Italian), Jorge, Leonor, voice custom Meteo, Juan (Castilian Spanish), Carlos (American Spanish), Soledad (Columbian Spanish), Milla (Finnish), Grace (Australian English), Zeynep (Turkish), Miren (Basque). http://www.loquendo.com/en/democenter/tts-demo/
- integration in the Loquendo TTS® of expressive speech, marked at the syntactic
and/or prosodic level (e.g. interrogative sentences, expressive speech acts, discoursive markers), in order to reproduce the stylistic variation in the neutral style
of synthesized texts, without compromising the naturalness of speech achieved
with the Unit Selection technique.
- specialized text projects (i.e. text to be recorded or to be mapped in a different
phonetic set) for the Italian language, such as loanwords lexical inventories (French
and German names for the Valle d'Aosta and Trentino Alto Adige, anglophone neologisms for linguistic codes of economy and finance, information technology and
web, sports, etc.), and their adaptations to the italian phonetic set.
- linguistic analysis for improving the expressiveness of synthesized voices.
- experience in annotation of textual corpora for prosodic phrasing.
- co-designer of a tool for prosodic analysis (based on the ESPS software) to annotate speech signals contours on the basis of a set of morphological labels and
acoustic parameters.
- with regard to TTS Director: Design of Expressive cues categories; QA testing for
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TTS Director GUI; User’s Guides technical reviewer; Prompt tuning for few customer
vocal applications.
- a few professional services for Banca Mediolanum, Tim, Radio Rai.
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
Dates
Occupation or position held
Main activities and
responsibilities
Name and address of employer
Type of business or sector
Eikon Informatica S.n.c. - 25, corso Tassoni, 10144 Torino, Italy
Information Technologies and Services
from February 2012 to present
Contractor
Speech Specialist
Nuance Communications Corporated – 6, Via Olivetti, 10148 Torino, Italy
Information Technologies and Services
Education and training
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
2012
PhD School
Studi Euro-Asiatici: Indologia, Linguistica, Onomastica
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy
Level in national or international
classification
ISCED 6
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
Principal subjects/occupational
skills covered
2001
Degree in Modern Literature (score 105:110)
General Linguistic
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy
Level in national or international
classification
ISCED 5A
Dates
1986
Title of qualification awarded
Degree in Interior Design (score 10:10)
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Istituto Europeo di Design, Milano, Italy
Level in national or international
classification
ISCED 4B
Dates
Title of qualification awarded
1982
High School Leaving Qualification (score 52:60)
Name and type of organisation
providing education and training
Liceo Artistico Statale 1º, Milano, Italy
Level in national or international
classification
ISCED 3A
Personal skills and
competences
Mother tongue(s) Italian
Other language(s)
Self-assessment
European level (*)
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Understanding
Listening
Reading
Speaking
Spoken interaction
Spoken production
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Writing
English
B1
French
A2
Basic user
A2
Basic user
Spanish
Independent
B2
user
Advanced
user
B1
Independent
Independent
B2
C1
user
user
Advanced
user
B1
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A1
Basic user
B1
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A2
Basic user
A1
Basic user
(*) Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Social skills and - Work in team
competences - Problem solving
- Leadership aptitude
- Public relationship
- Teaching
Organisational skills and - Internal (at Loquendo S.p.A.) and external (at Università degli Studi di Torino, at
competences Scuola Holden Torino) seminars.
- Linguistic consultant trainer (at Loquendo S.p.A.)
Technical skills and - endpoint, declicking, filtering and normalization of speech audio signal (Loquendo
competences S.p.A., since 2002).
Computer skills and - competent with most Microsoft Office and Mac programmes (on my own, since
competences 1986)
- experience with X-Waves, Wavesurfer, Adobe Auditio, Praat
Artistic skills and Poet and novels writer (since 1997)
competences
Additional information PUBLICATIONS
Tini Brunozzi, Francesca / Quazza, Silvia / Zovato, Enrico, 2010, “Atti illocutivi e
segnali discorsivi. Un contributo linguistico a un sistema TTS verso la sintesi vocale
espressiva”, in Ferrari, Giacomo / Benatti, Ruben / Mosca, Monica (Eds.), Linguistica
e modelli tecnologici di ricerca, Atti del XL Congresso Internazionale della SLI,
Società di Linguistica Italiana, Vercelli 21 - 23 settembre 2006, Bulzoni, Roma.
http://www.torrossa.it/resources/an/2428608
Zovato, Enrico / Tini Brunozzi, Francesca / Danieli, Morena, 2008, “Interplay
between pragmatic and acoustic level to embody expressive cues in a Text to
Speech system”, in Proceedings of the AISB 2008 Symposium on Affective Language in Human and Machine, AISB 2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1-4, 2008,
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb08/proc/proceedings/02%20Affective
%20Language/Final%20vol%2002.pdf
Bazzanella, Carla / Bosco, Cristina / Gili Fivela, Barbara / Miecznikowski, Johanna /
Tini Brunozzi, Francesca, 2008, Segnali discorsivi e tipi di interazione, in Bosisio,
Cristina / Cambiaghi, Bona / Piemontesa, M. Emanuela / Santulli, Francesca (Eds.),
Aspetti linguistici della comunicazione pubblica e istituzionale, Atti del VII
Congresso dell’aitla, Associazione Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, Milano 22 e 23
febbraio 2007, Guerra Edizioni, Perugia.
http://www.guerraedizioni.com/books/index.cfm?node=0,1,19,155,1104
Bazzanella, Carla / Bosco, Cristina / Gili Fivela, Barbara / Miecznikowski, Johanna /
Tini Brunozzi, Francesca, 2008, “Polifunzionalità dei segnali discorsivi, sviluppo
conversazionale e ruolo dei tratti fonetici e fonologici”, in Pettorino, Massimo /
Giannini, Antonella / Vallone, Marianna / Savy, Renata (Eds.), La comunicazione
parlata, Atti del Convegno internazionale “La comunicazione parlata”, GSCP
Gruppo di Studio sulla Comunicazione Parlata Napoli, 23-25 febbraio 2006, Liguori,
Napoli.
http://www.liguori.it/schedanew.asp?isbn=4022
Tini Brunozzi, Francesca, 2008, “Uso del pronome di prima persona ‘io’ in costrutti
non-marcati in contesto dialogico”, in Pettorino, Massimo / Giannini, Antonella /
Vallone, Marianna / Savy, Renata (Eds.), La comunicazione parlata, Atti del
Convegno internazionale “La comunicazione parlata”, GSCP Gruppo di Studio sulla
Comunicazione Parlata Napoli, 23-25 febbraio 2006, Liguori, Napoli.
http://www.liguori.it/schedanew.asp?isbn=4022
Tini Brunozzi, Francesca / Danieli, Morena, 2008, “Da fonetico a grafemico.
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Manifestazione delle emozioni negli SMS tra oralità e scrittura”, in Magno
Caldognetto, Emanuela / Cavicchio, Federica / Cosi, Piero (Eds.), Comunicazione
parlata e manifestazione delle emozioni, Atti del 1° Convegno Nazionale GSCP
Gruppo di Studio della Comunicazione Parlata, “Comunicazione parlata e
manifestazione delle emozioni”, Padova, 30 novembre – 1 dicembre 2004, Liguori,
Napoli.
http://www.liguori.it/schedanew.asp?isbn=4019
Bazzanella, Carla / Bosco, Cristina / Garcea, Alessandro / Gili Fivela, Barbara /
Miecznikowski, Johanna / Tini Brunozzi, Francesca, 2007, “Italian allora, French
alors: functions, convergences, and divergences”, «Catalan Journal of Linguistics»,
vol.6 – 2007, special issue, M.J. Cuenca (ed.), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona,
Servei de Publicacions, Bellaterra (Es).
http://publicacions.uab.es/llibres/fitxa_web_llibres.asp?ID=1106
Panizza, Andrea / Tini Brunozzi, Francesca / Zovato, Enrico, 2006, “Uno strumento
per l’annotazione e la modellizzazione prosodica di enunciati marcati per un
sistema di sintesi vocale”, in Savy, Renata / Crocco, Claudia (Eds.), Analisi
prosodica - Teorie, modelli e sistemi di annotazione, Atti del 2° Convegno
Nazionale dell’ Associazione Italiana di Scienze della Voce, “Analisi prosodica.
Teorie, modelli e sistemi di annotazione”, Fisciano – Salerno, 30 Novembre - 2
Dicembre 2005, EDK editore, Torriana (Rn).
http://www.aisv.it/it/pubblicazioni-aisv
Tini Brunozzi, Francesca, 2003, “Come fare cose con le voci”, in Giacalone Ramat,
Anna / Rigotti, Eddo / Rocci, Andrea (Eds.), Linguistica e nuove professioni, Atti del
convegno “Linguistics and the New Professions”, Pavia-Lugano, November, 27-30,
2002, Materiali Linguistici. Collana a acura dell’Università di Pavia, Dip. di
Linguistica, Franco Angeli, Milano.
http://www.francoangeli.it/ricerca/Scheda_libro.aspx?ID=11433&Tipo=Libro
Tini Brunozzi, Francesca, 2003, "Caldo ma tiepido. Connettivi avversativi e
strategie di focalizzazione e riformulazione testuale", in «Italiano & Oltre» 2/2003,
La Nuova Italia, Firenze.
http://www.parlaritaliano.it/index.php/en/tools/146-caldo-ma-tiepido-connettiviavversativi-e-strategie-di-focalizzazione-e-riformulazione-testuale
Torino, March 23, 2012
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