Innovate--Collaborate--Discover O'Reilly Open Source Convention Sheraton San Diego Hotel, San Diego, CA
July 23-27, 2001
Speaker
Alan W. Black
Alan W Black is faculty at the Language Technologies Institute at
Carnegie Mellon University and co-founder of Cepstral, LLC, a company
offering voice building services on top of free software synthesis engines.
He has over 15 years in speech and language research, publishing more
than 50 papers in those fields. He is a principal author of Edinburgh
University's Festival Speech Synthesis System, and co-author of the
forthcoming O'Reilly book "Building Synthetic Voices", and
co-author of FestVox and Flite.