Éric Le Ferrand is a PhD candidate in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Education. His research focuses on the exploration of speech recognition technologies for poorly resourced languages and their exploitation to enable collaborative transcription in remote Aboriginal communities. Éric studied Italian language and culture at Université Rennes 2 and computational linguistics at Université Grenoble Alpes. He started his academic career at the Gispa Lab and the Laboratoire d'informatique de Grenoble on a project around multimodal communication analysis first and two other projects on the analysis of visually grounded speech models and the creation of resources for automatic speech translation.