Alan W. Black
| Alan W Black | |
|---|---|
 Alan W Black | |
| 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.
- 1 2 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.
- ↑ Yeomans, Michael (April 13, 2003), "High-tech translation", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
- ↑ Cepstral leadership, retrieved 2010-07-18.
External links
- Faculty web page at CMU