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 a 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 master's 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 was chief scientist at Cepstral, a Pittsburgh-based speech translation technology company.[4][5]
References
- ↑ LTI faculty listing, retrieved 2010-07-18.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Biographical sketch from Black's CMU web site, retrieved 2010-07-18.
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- ↑ Cepstral leadership, retrieved 2010-07-18.
External links
- Faculty web page at CMU
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