Dr. Blaise Potard is a Post-doctoral Researcher at CereProc Ltd in Edinburgh. In the past, his research has focused on various fields related to speech technology (Acoustic-to-Articulatory Inversion, Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Automatic Speech Recognition…). In the context of the ARIA-VALUSPA project, he will be mostly working on improving the expressiveness of Text-to-Speech voices, in particular their emotional aspects.