Jean-Marc Valin

Jean-Marc Valin 2012

Jean-Marc Valin is a developer of free multimedia software. He is a developer of important audio compression processes. Among other things, he is the creator of the widespread Speex, which specializes in speech signals, as well as the CELT process . CELT was incorporated into the new Internet standard Opus , of which Valin is also the main developer. He was and is involved in the development of various other multimedia formats at the Xiph.Org Foundation . He is also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

He studied at the Université de Sherbrooke in Québec , Canada, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in 1999, his master's degree in 2001 and finally his doctorate in electrical engineering in 2005 with a doctoral thesis on a system for auditory perception for a mobile robot. He worked for InfoSpace Speech Solutions (2001), for the ICT center of the Australian research agency “ CSIRO ” (2005–2008) and for Octasic Inc. (2008–2011) on speech communication and speech recognition systems. He began working on Speex in early 2002 with the help of David Rowe ( Codec2 ). At the end of July 2011, Jean-Marc Valin got a paid job for the development of Opus at Mozilla Corporation . A current project is the development of a free video compression format under the name " Daala ", which would be a free alternative to HEVC / H.265 . He currently lives in Canada with his children .

Web links

• Private website
• Private website at Xiph.Org

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1. ↑ https://archive.fosdem.org/2006/index/speakers/speakers_valin.html
2. ↑ http://jmvalin.ca/papers/phd_thesis.pdf ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ http://jmvalin.ca/CV_jmvalin.pdf ( Memento from October 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ http://www.wirevolution.com/2009/05/09/interview-with-jean-marc-valin-of-speex/
5. ↑ http://jmspeex.livejournal.com/7352.html
6. ↑ http://xiph.org/daala/