Scholar
Alan W Black
Google Scholar ID: Es-YRKMAAAAJ
Professor, Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Citations & Impact
Citations
11,511
H-index
48
i10-index
166
Publications
20
Co-authors
85
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Led or contributed to numerous speech and language technology projects, including:
- - CMU Wilderness Multilingual Speech Dataset (650+ languages, ~20 hours aligned speech per language)
- - New Parameterization for Emotional Speech (JHU CLSP Summer Workshop 2011)
- - The Spoken Dialog Challenge 2011
- - The Blizzard Challenge (evaluating corpus-based speech synthesis)
- - CMU SPICE: toolkit for automatically building speech recognition and synthesis for new languages
- - TRANSFORM: flexible voice synthesis via articulatory voice transformation
- - ESPER: extracting speaker information from children’s stories for synthesis
- - Let's Go: designing spoken dialog systems for the elderly and non-native speakers
- - Speech-to-speech translation projects: Transtac (Iraqi, Farsi, Pashto, Dari), LASER ACTD (Thai), Babylon (Arabic), Tongues (Croatian)
- - Open-source TTS engine Flite: small, fast, resource-light, and scalable
- - Bard: a story-telling program for ebook reading
- - FestVox project: automated methods for building new voices and languages
- - Festival Speech Synthesis System (University of Edinburgh): general multilingual TTS
