Miguel Sales Dias

Position	Associate professor
Affiliation	Microsoft MLDC & ISCTE
Country	Portugal
Group	Biomedical Informatics and Technologies
Students	João Freitas
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Books

• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias, Samuel Silva. An Introduction to Silent Speech Interfaces. Springer, 2016
• Miguel Sales Dias, António J. S. Teixeira, Daniela Braga. AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications - Proc. of AAL 2012. INSTICC, January 2012
• António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias, Daniela Braga. I Iberian SLTech - Proceedings of the I Joint SIG-IL/Microsoft Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages. Designeed (ISBN 978-989-96278-1-9), 2009

Articles in international journals listed in the ISI

• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Samuel Silva, Catarina Oliveira, Miguel Sales Dias. Detecting Nasal Vowels in Speech Interfaces based on Surface Electromyography. PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 6, p. e0127040, June 2015 [IF 2015: 3.057 (Q1, 11/63)] [IF 2017: 2.766 (Q1, 15/64)]

Other articles in journals

• Annika Hämäläinen, António J. S. Teixeira, Nuno Almeida, Hugo Meinedo, Tybor Fegyó, Miguel Sales Dias. Multilingual speech recognition for the elderly: The AALFred personal life assistant. Procedia Computer Science, vol. 6th International Conference on Software Development and Technologies for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Infoexclusion (DSAI 2015), June 2015

Chapters in books

• António J. S. Teixeira, Nelson Rocha, Carlos Pereira, Joaquim Sousa Pinto, Miguel Sales Dias, Cláudio Teixeira, Miguel Oliveira e Silva, Alexandra Queirós, Flávio Ferreira, André Oliveira. The Living Usability Lab Architecture: Support for the Development and Evaluation of New AAL Services for the Elderly. Ambient Assisted Living: From Technology to Intervention, CRC Press, p. 477-508, June 2015
• Catarina Oliveira, Luciana Albuquerque, Annika Hämäläinen, Fernando Miguel Pinto, Miguel Sales Dias, Ana Júdice, João Freitas, Carlos Galinho Pires, Vitor Duarte Teixeira, António Calado, Daniela Braga, António J. S. Teixeira. Tecnologias de Fala para Pessoas Idosas. Laboratório Vivo de Usabilidade (Living Usability Lab), ARC Publishing, p. 167-181, October 2013
• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias, Carlos A C Bastos. Towards a Multimodal Silent Speech Interface for European Portuguese. Speech Technologies, INTECH, vol. Book 1, 2011

Articles in conference proceedings

• Diogo Vieira, João Freitas, Cengiz Acartürk, António J. S. Teixeira, Luís Sousa, Samuel Silva, Sara Candeias, Miguel Sales Dias. "Read That Article": Exploring Synergies between Gaze and Speech Interaction. Proc. 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers & Accessibility (ASSETS), p. 341-342, 2015
• Nuno Almeida, António J. S. Teixeira, Ana Filipa Rosa, Daniela Braga, João Freitas, Miguel Sales Dias, Samuel Silva, Jairo Avelar, Christiano Chesi, Nuno Saldanha. Giving Voices to Multimodal Applications. Proc. HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, August 2015
• João Freitas, Miguel Sales Dias, António J. S. Teixeira. Can Ultrasonic Doppler Help Detecting Nasality for Silent Speech Interfaces? An Exploratory Analysis based on Alignement of the Doppler Signal with Velum Aperture Information from Real-Time MRI'. Proceedings of PhyCS, 2014
• João Freitas, Samuel Silva, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias. Assessing the Applicability of Surface EMG to Tongue Gesture Detection. Proc. IberSpeech, Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain, vol. LNAI 8854, p. 189 - 198, October 2014
• João Freitas, Artur Ferreira, Mário Figueiredo, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias. Enhancing Multimodal Silent Speech Interfaces with Feature Selection. Proceedings InterSpeech, Singapura, September 2014
• Luciana Albuquerque, Catarina Oliveira, António J. S. Teixeira, Pedro Sá-Couto, João Freitas, Miguel Sales Dias. Impact of age in the production of European Portuguese vowels. Proceedings InterSpeech, Singapura, September 2014
• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias. Multimodal Corpora for Silent Speech Interaction. LREC, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 2014
• João Freitas, Miguel Sales Dias, Samuel Silva, Catarina Oliveira, António J. S. Teixeira. Velum Movement Detection based on Surface Electromyography for Speech Interface'. BIOSIGNALS 2014 – Int Conf on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing, Angers, France, March 2014
• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias. Silent Speech for Human-Computer Interaction. Doctoral Consortium BIOSTEC 2014, Angers, France, March 2014
• Nuno Saldanha, Jairo Avelar, Miguel Sales Dias, António J. S. Teixeira, Daniel Gonçalves, E. Bonnet, K. Lan, Géza Nemeth, P. Csobanka, A. Kolesinski. A Personal Life Assistant for ``natural interaction: the PaeLife project. Proc. AAL Forum, 2013
• António J. S. Teixeira, Annika Hämäläinen, Jairo Avelar, Nuno Almeida, Géza Németh, Tibor Fegyó, Csaba Zainkó, Tamás Csapó, Bálint Tóth, André Oliveira, Miguel Sales Dias. Speech-Centric Multimodal Interaction for Easy-To-Access Online Services – A Personal Life Assistant for the Elderly. Proc. DSAI 2013, Procedia Computer Science, November 2013
• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Miguel Sales Dias. Multimodal Silent Speech Interface based on Video, Depth, Surface Electromyography and Ultrasonic Doppler: Data Collection and First Recognition Results. Workshop on Speech Production in Automatic Speech Recognition, Lyon, August 2013
• João Freitas, António J. S. Teixeira, Francisco Vaz, Miguel Sales Dias. Automatic Speech Recognition based on Ultrasonic Doppler Sensing for European Portuguese. Advances in Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages, vol. CCIS 328, Springer, 2012
• José Serra, Manuel Ribeiro, João Freitas, Verónica Orvalho, Miguel Sales Dias. A proposal for a visual speech animation system for European Portuguese. IberSPEECH 2012, November 2012
• João Freitas, Miguel Sales Dias, António J. S. Teixeira. Towards a Silent Speech Interface for Portuguese: Surface Electromyography and the nasality challenge. International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing (BIOSIGNALS 2012), Vilamoura, Portugal, February 2012
• António J. S. Teixeira, Nelson Rocha, Miguel Sales Dias, Daniela Braga, Alexandra Queirós, Osvaldo Pacheco, José Alberto Fonseca, Joaquim Sousa Pinto, Hugo Gamboa, Luós Corte-Real, João Fonseca, Joaquim Arnaldo Martins, António J. R. Neves, Paulo Bartolomeu, Catarina Oliveira, João Cunha, Carlos Pereira. A New Living Lab for Usability Evaluation of ICT and Next Generation Networks for Elderly@Home. AAL 2011 - 1st Int. Living Usability Lab Workshop on AAL Latest Solutions, Trends and Applications (In conjuction with BIOSTEC 2011), Rome, p. 85-97, January 2011
• Ana Júdice, João Freitas, Daniela Braga, António Calado, Miguel Sales Dias, António J. S. Teixeira, Catarina Oliveira. Elderly Speech Collection for Speech Recognition Based on Crowd Sourcing. Int. Conf. on Software Development for Enhancing Accessibility and Fighting Info-exclusion (DSAI), SAE, Littlemore Park, Armstrong Road, Oxford, OX4 4FY Oxford, UK, 2010