Between February and March 2015, Mihai DOGARIU, a 1st year student in the BIOSINF Master’s program, worked as a research fellow with the speech processing team at Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), France. The fellowship position was held as part of the ANVSIB research project, focusing on the development of a Romanian far-field speech corpus, required for the evaluation of an automated assistance system for smart buildings.