Biography of the Speaker :

Richard W. Sproat is with the Beckman Institute, the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).He also holds adjunct positions with the Departments of Computer Science and Psychology. Dr Sproat holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before joining UIUC, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs, and was one of the main people responsible for the Bell Labs Multilingual TTS System. Later, he was named a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs. He is also a visiting scientist at Google Labs and an adjunct faculty member at Center for Spoken Language Understanding at the Oregon Health and Science University. His research interests include accent
prediction, articulatory phonetics, morphology, speech data mining, text-to-scene conversion and TTS. He has chaired and organized international conferences on speech and linguistics and is a reviewer for several journals in related areas.

 

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