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Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist.^[1] He wrote the initial infobot, founded The Perl Foundation (and was its chairman until 2007^[2]) and the Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPC).,^[3] released CMU Sphinx into Open source, founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the Festival Speech Synthesis System, FestVox, and Flite. His voice is the basis for a number of synthetic voices, including FreeTTS, Flite, and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice. He has also contributed Perl modules to CPAN.

See also

YAPC, the Yet Another Perl Conferences, founded by Kevin Lenzo
The Perl Foundation, co-founded with Kurt DeMaagd
Flite, Festival Speech Synthesis System and in particular kal_diphone (Kevin A Lenzo) made from his voice, and FestVox for building synthetic voices
The Infobot, an Internet Relay Chat agent
CMU Sphinx which he released into Open Source
FreeTTS, a Java port of Flite
The Perl Programming Language
The White Camel Awards
CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
Cepstral LLC

References

^ IT Conversations: Kevin Lenzo - Text to Speech: Make It Talk, recorded 2006-01-25
^ Perl Foundation: Perl Foundation Board of Directors election, new people, new positions, accessed 2010-07-10
^ "The Timeline of Perl and its Culture".

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