Alan W Black | |
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 Alan W Black | |
| Born | Scotland |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Coventry University |
| Known for | Speech synthesis |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Cooper and Graeme Ritchie |
Alan W Black is a Scottishcomputer scientist, known for his research onspeech synthesis. He is a professor in theLanguage Technologies Institute atCarnegie Mellon University inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1][2]
Black did his undergraduate studies atCoventry University, graduating in 1984. He earned a master's degree from theUniversity of Edinburgh in 1986 and a Ph.D. from the same university in 1993. After working at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International inKansai 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 theFestival Speech Synthesis System at Edinburgh, and continues to develop it at Carnegie Mellon. He has also worked onmachine translation of speech at CMU,[3] and is the co-founder and was chief scientist atCepstral, a Pittsburgh-based speech translation technology company.[4][5]
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