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Description: I obtained a BSc in Physics with Computing Physics from
University College Swansea an MSc(Eng.) by research in Electrical
Engineering from Liverpool University and a Phd in Speech Science fom
University College London. After completing my first degree, I was
employed at Liverpool as an RA working on Speech Coding and Digital
Filter design. After leaving Liverpool I was employed in the
department of Phonetics and Linguistics at UCL, where I worked on
speech analysis, recognition and synthesis. I then joined BT,
eventually becoming project leader and project manager of the
Text-to-Speech Synthesis, Synthetic Persona and VR projects. I am
currently working on Text-to-Speech Synthesis and Intelligent Computer
Generated Characters at UEA. I have close links with a number of
commercial organisations working in these areas.
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