APPLE
Speech & Language Technologies, Advanced Technology Group
  • Specified architectural tradeoffs and selection of voices in phonetic, prosodic and phonemic components for the speech synthesis research, development, and applications embodied in the "MacInTalkPro2" high quality product released 8/93 and currently available on all Apple platforms.
  • Localization Consultant: specified phoneme set, conversion rules, phonetic dictionary entries, script analysis, and voice recording for UK English text-to-speech. Created UK English dictionary; recorded UK English speech database.
  • Provided specification, exemplification and international comparison of text fields in five European languages.

    • BLACKWELL’S Publishers
    Technical reviewer for book "The Sounds of the World’s Languages".
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    CENTIGRAM COMMUNICATIONS
    British English script evaluation and localization; voice talent for voice messaging instructional software.

    COMPAQ
    (previously) DIGITAL EQUIPMENT

  • Directed advanced phonetic/linguistic R&D for text-to-speech synthesis, including existing product. Specified future directions, integration and delivery of synthetic speech for multilingual "DECtalk" products.
  • Specified phonetic, prosodic and phonemic components for R&D of UK English speech synthesis. Created UK English dictionary; recorded UK English speech database.
  • Provided specification and exemplification of phonetic, prosodic and phonemic components for development of German and Spanish speech synthesis.
    • FILEMAKER
    (previously) CLARIS Language and Internationalization Consultant
  • Specificied, exemplified compared and documented international language and locale conventions in 20 languages and dialects.
  • Internationalization and competitive product research and analysis for FileMaker International Engineering Group.
    • FASTV.COM
    Integrating speech input-output with streamed live broadcast media using natural language.
    FONIX
    Vice President for Strategic Technology
    Producing multilingual text-to-speech synthesis, natural language research, integration of speech input-output with other human computer interaction modalities, and building/managing a team of language experts.
    Technical oversight of phonetic/linguistic research and development for multilingual TTS products, natural language processing, and talking agents.
    GENERAL MAGIC
    Evaluation of voice user interface design and phonetic/phonemic modules for "MyTalk" and "Portico" products and services.
    INTERVAL RESEARCH
    Linguistic Consultant
    Specified linguistic/phonetic aspects of computer music composition interface.
    LEXICON NAMING
    Linguistic Consultant
  • Technical evaluation of linguistic/phonetic aspects of product names in multiple languages.
  • Specified cross-language psycholinguistic features of orthographic and script characters.
    • OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Phonetic expert and voice recording talent for ESL pronunciation textbook and audio tapes.
  • On-camera presenter for training course on programming language: "Ada".
  • International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics (2nd. Ed.) entry writer for Speech Synthesis.
    • PANASONIC
    Speech Technology Laboratory
    Specified acoustic phonetic, prosodic and phonemic components for US English female speech synthesis using a parallel (rule-based) speech synthesizer.
    PHILIPS
    (for Voice Control Systems)
    Director of Language Development
  • Specified research analysis and budget for data collection and development of speech recognition in languages other than English.
  • Designed and tested speech user interface for CTI automated receptionist application.
  • Researched and documented phonetic/phonemic differences between seven varieties of Latin American Spanish.
    • SUN MICROSYSTEMS
    Speech Technology Consultant
  • Specified architectural tradeoffs and created phonetic, phonemic and prosodic components for speech synthesis development in 7 languages, embodied in the SunSoft TTS system; provided evaluation of and extensions to SunSoft TTS application programmers' interface (API).
  • Provided specification, exemplification and international comparison of text fields in 7 languages: US English, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish.
    • TELIA
    (previously Infovox, Sweden)
    British English text-to-speech design, and evaluation for a parallel (rule-based) speech synthesizer.
    UNISYS
    (for Digital Sound Corp; now PulsePoint Communications)
    Voice messaging design and recording
  • British English voicemail script evaluation and localization; voice talent for PBX voice messaging instructional software.
  • Specification, exemplification, and international comparison of voicemail instructions in six languages: US English, UK English, French, Italian, Spanish, German