Alan W. Black
| Alan W Black | |
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 Alan W Black |
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| Born | Scotland |
| Citizenship |  Scotland |
| Nationality | Scotland |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Coventry University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Cooper and Graeme Ritchie |
| Known for | Speech synthesis |
Alan W Black is a Scottish computer scientist, known for his research on speech synthesis. He is an associate professor in the Language Technology Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1][2]
Black did his undergraduate studies at Coventry University, graduating in 1984. He earned a masters degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1986 and a Ph.D. from the same university in 1993. After working at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kansai Science City, Japan and at the University of Edinburgh, he took a research faculty position at Carnegie Mellon in 1999. In 2008 he became a regular faculty member with tenure at CMU.[2]
Black wrote the Festival Speech Synthesis System at Edinburgh, and continues to develop it at Carnegie Mellon. He has also worked on machine translation of speech at CMU,[3] and is the co-founder and chief scientist at Cepstral, a Pittsburgh-based speech translation technology company.[4][5]
[edit] References
- ^ LTI faculty listing, retrieved 2010-07-18.
- ^ a b Biographical sketch from Black's CMU web site, retrieved 2010-07-18.
- ^ Eisenberg, Anne (June 4, 2001), "What's Next: Roaming the World With a Translator in Your Pocket", New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/14/technology/what-s-next-roaming-the-world-with-a-translator-in-your-pocket.html.
- ^ Yeomans, Michael (April 13, 2003), "High-tech translation", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/s_128481.html.
- ^ Cepstral leadership, retrieved 2010-07-18.
[edit] External links
- Faculty web page at CMU
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