Alan W Black | |
|---|---|
 Alan W Black | |
| Born | Scotland |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh Coventry University |
| Known for | Speech synthesis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Doctoral advisor | Robin Cooper and Graeme Ritchie |
Alan W Black is a Scottish computer scientist, known for his research on speech synthesis. He is a professor in the Language Technologies 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]
- ^ LTI faculty listing Archived 20 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2010-07-18.
- ^ a b Biographical sketch Archived 21 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine from Black's CMU web site, retrieved 2010-07-18.
- ^ Eisenberg, Anne (4 June 2001), "What's Next: Roaming the World With a Translator in Your Pocket", The New York Times, archived from the original on 4 March 2016, retrieved 18 February 2017.
- ^ Yeomans, Michael (13 April 2003), "High-tech translation", Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, archived from the original on 30 August 2008, retrieved 19 July 2010.
- ^ Cepstral leadership, retrieved 2010-07-18.