Richard Sproat

Richard William Sproat
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego (B.A., 1981)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1985)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsComputational linguistics
InstitutionsGoogle (2012–present)
ThesisOn Deriving the Lexicon (1985)
Doctoral advisorKen Hale

Richard Sproat is a computational linguist currently working for Sakana AI [ja] as a research scientist.[1] Prior to joining Sakana AI, Sproat worked for Google between 2012 and 2024[2] on text normalization[3] and speech recognition.[1]

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  3. ^ Sodimana, Keshan; Silva, Pasindu De; Sproat, Richard; Theeraphol, A.; Li, Chen Fang; Gutkin, Alexander; Sarin, Supheakmungkol; Pipatsrisawat, Knot (2018). "Text Normalization for Bangla, Khmer, Nepali, Javanese, Sinhala and Sundanese Text-to-Speech Systems" (PDF). 6th Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages (SLTU 2018). pp. 147–151. doi:10.21437/SLTU.2018-31. S2CID 53333966.