Luis Joglar Ongay

R&D AUDIO TECHNOLOGY SPECIALIST AND DOCTORAL STUDENT

Luis Joglar
Luis Joglar Portrait

Hello, I’m a Doctoral Student at the Human-Environment Research Group (HER) at La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull.

I am exploring speech processing techniques for identification of vocal biomarkers from health applications. Specifically, I am studying the changes induced by stress situations in the voice production system, describing them using the source-filter model. I aim at understanding how the human vocal apparatus is affected by stress and characterise the variations to through Glottal Source and Vocal Tract Filter features.

Leveraging this knowledge, I will train explainable AI models essential towards achieving a system that helps users and practitioners monitor daily life stress from speech. In addition, this non-invasive approach may become instrumental to prevent long term exposure to stress and the early detection of related health events.

My Path

Doctorate

Researching identification of vocal biomarkers for mental health applications through speech processing techniques and Deep Learning, aiming for explainable and interpretable models.

HER La Salle - URL 2023 - Present

Master’s Degree and Research Sound and Music Computing

During my time at the MTG I collaborated in the development and evaluation of music of algorithms, inlcuded in the open-source library Essentia, for audio quality control and artifacts detection, publishing the results in the 146th AES Convention in Dublin in 2019. I also worked on the development, evaluation and publication of essentia.js the open-source software JavaScript library for music and audio analysis on the web, in 2021.

Music Technology Group 2018 - 2022

Lead R&D and Software Engineer

I started working as a full-stack web developer and software engineer building my way up to a new role in the company according to my interests and education, working on Research and Development for audio and music projects.

SonoSuite 2017 - 2022

B.Sc. Music Technology and Audio Systems

Audio Electronics, Programming for Music Technology (Audio Plugins and Web Audio), Computer Composition and Sound Design, Recording, Live Music Production, Microprocessors, Acoustics and Psychoacoustics. Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Wakefield and Mr. Christopher Dewey.

University of Huddersfield 2013 - 2017

Publications

Peer Reviewed

July 2023, Evaluation of Glottal Inverse Filtering Techniques on OPENGLOT Synthetic Male and Female Vowels

Marc Freixes, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Joan Claudi Socoró, and Francesc Alías-Pujol

Applied Sciences (Special Issue "IberSPEECH 2022 Speech and Language Technologies for Iberian Languages") 13(15), 8775

November 2021, Audio and Music Analysis on the Web using Essentia.js

Albin Andrew Correya, Jorge Marcos Fernández, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Pablo Alonso Jiménez, Xavier Serra, and Dmitry Bogdanov

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval 2021 Volume 4 Issue 1 Page 167–181

October 2020, Essentia. js A JavaScript library for music and audio analysis on the web

Albin Andrew Correya, Dmitry Bogdanov, Luis Joglar-Ongay, and Xavier Serra

Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference

March 2019, Automatic detection of audio problems for quality control in digital music distribution

Pablo Alonso-Jiménez, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Xavier Serra, and Dmitry Bogdanov

Audio Engineering Society Convention 146 Paper Number 10205, Poster Session 4

Thesis

August 2020, Applications of Essentia on the web

Luis Joglar-Ongay

Master in Sound Music Computing

May 2017, Gestural Music Expression Application using smartphone’s embedded sensors in Android

Luis Joglar-Ongay

B.Sc. Music Technology and Audio Systems

Other

July 2021, Introduction to Music Information Retrieval using Essentia.js

Albin Correya, Dmitry Bogdanov, Luis Joglar-Ongay, Jorge Marcos-Fernández

Proceedings of the International Web Audio Conference

September 2020, Sónar+D CCCB 2020 – Essentia.js Workshop

Luis Joglar-Ongay

Sónar+D CCCB 2020

December 2019, Essentia in the browser

Luis Joglar-Ongay, Albin Correya, Pablo Alonso-Jiménez, Xavier Serra and Dmitry Bogdanov

Proceedings of the International Web Audio Conference 114-115

May 2016, Implementation of Faster than Real Time Audio Analysis for Use with Web Audio API An FFT Case Study

Luis Joglar-Ongay, Christopher Dewey, and Jonathan Wakefield

Audio Engineering Society Convention 140

Bass Player and Music Producer

I also love playing bass and composing and producing music. During my B.Sc. degree I studied Popular Music recording, mixing and production.

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