Alan W. Black
Scottish computer scientist
Alan W Black is a Scottish computer scientist, known for his research on speech synthesis. He is a retired professor in the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.2
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Born 1937.1
About
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, and in June of 2022, he retired from being a full-time professor.
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, and is the co-founder and was chief scientist at Cepstral, a Pittsburgh-based speech translation technology company.
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Early life and education
- Date not recordedUniversity of Edinburgh3
Career
Occupation: computer scientist, engineer, university teacher.6
- Date not recordedWorked at Carnegie Mellon University4
- Date not recordedFounded Cepstral5
Personal life
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- 1WikidataAlan W. Black on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaAlan W. Black on Wikipedia
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- 9WikidataCepstral, Founder
- 10Wikimedia CommonsAlan W. Black photo by Dcoetzee, Public domain