Kevin Lenzo

American computer scientist

Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist. He wrote the initial infobot, founded The Perl Foundation (and was its chairman until 2007) and the Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPC)., released CMU Sphinx into Open source, founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the Festival Speech Synthesis System, FestVox, and Flite.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Kevin Lenzo (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1967.¹

About

His voice is the basis for a number of synthetic voices, including FreeTTS, Flite, and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice. He has also contributed Perl modules to CPAN. Kevin was also a founding member of the 1980s funk band "Leftover Funk" and the "Petty Punkasses" in 1998.

From Wikipedia’s article on Kevin Lenzo, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

CepstralFounder⁷

Career

Occupation: computer scientist, engineer.⁴

Date not recordedFounded Cepstral³

Personal life

CitizenshipUnited States⁵

Awards

1999White Camel award⁶

Sources

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WikidataKevin Lenzo on Wikidata
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WikipediaKevin Lenzo on Wikipedia
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WikidataKevin Lenzo: Founded Cepstral, on Wikidata
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WikidataKevin Lenzo: occupation, on Wikidata
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WikidataKevin Lenzo: citizenship, on Wikidata
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WikidataKevin Lenzo: award, on Wikidata
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WikidataCepstral, Founder