PhD · PPGLL
Mariana Silva Sousa
Acoustic correlates of lexical stress in Yaathe: a phonetic-experimental study of production and perception.
04 / 08
People
Academic supervision and researcher training at different levels, connected to work in prosody, language processing, experimental methods, corpora and speech technologies.
Current supervision
Graduate and undergraduate thesis supervision currently in progress.
PhD · PPGLL
Rebeca Rodrigues de Santana
Multimodal prosody and the pragmatic interpretation of certainty and uncertainty in Brazilian Portuguese.
Master’s · PPGLL
José Cícero Afonso dos Santos
Building an audiovisual multimodal corpus of speech from Alagoas.
Undergraduate thesis · 2026.2 · FALE/UFAL
José Eraldo Nunes de Albuquerque
Rising intonation in declarative utterances in the speech of Instagram content creators.
TaRSila · C4AI/USP
Tarefa de Anotação para o Reconhecimento e Síntese de fala da Língua Portuguesa (Annotation Task for Portuguese Speech Recognition and Synthesis).
PIBITI / CNPq
Nicole Biatriz de Oliveira Santos
Acoustic-prosodic and automatic metrics for reproducible evaluation of speech-synthesis systems.
Volunteer researcher
Marianne Florentino Bezerra
Technical documentation and support materials for the Blizzard Challenge 2027 and the Speech Synthesis Workshop.
Volunteer researcher
Letícia Lília da Silva Barbosa
Technical curation of stimuli, TextGrids and metadata from natural and synthesized speech for TTS benchmarks.
Volunteer researcher
Guilherme da Silva Oliveira
Technical validation of the EyetrackingMOS platform across different computing environments.
Collaborator
Vinicius Gomes Pinto
Speech corpora, Praat, TextGrids and methodological support for TaRSila activities.
Processamento de fronteiras prosódicas no discurso, Fase 4
Acoustic cues, event perception and preparation for neurocognitive and multimodal studies.
Project · Prosodic boundaries
Helen Moraes de Moura
Prosodic-boundary processing in discourse, annotation calibration and acoustic analysis.
Project · Prosodic boundaries
Mariana Costa Galdino
Prosodic-boundary processing in discourse, experimental methods and eye-tracking data.
Volunteer researcher
Cinthya Gabrielly de Melo Silva
Training in prosody, annotation and acoustic analysis of narratives.
Volunteer researcher
Hevillyn Luiza da Silva Santos
Preparation of a study using spontaneous multimodal narratives and event boundaries.
TaRSila · collaboration on spontaneous speech and synthesis
TaRSila / C4AI-USP
Quézia Ester Ferreira Barros
Spontaneous-speech phenomena and their acoustic-prosodic properties in SP-DID-234, comparing natural and synthesized speech.
TaRSila / C4AI-USP
Aleksandro da Silva Aureliano
Spontaneous-speech phenomena and their acoustic-prosodic properties in SP-DID-234, comparing natural and synthesized speech.