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Description: Specialism: Prosody Prediction in Text-to-Speech Systems
Spoken Dialogue Perceptual Evaluation Cross-language comparisons
CURRICULUM VITAE
Personal Details
Date and Place of Birth:
28 March 1964, Berlin
Marital Status:
Married
Children:
Ken, born 9 July 1994
Tim, born 23 April 2000
Career History
Education
1970-1976
Primary school in Berlin
1976-1983
Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium, Berlin
1983
Abitur
January-March 1983
Practical training for electrical engineering students, AEG, Berlin
1983-1990
Technical University Berlin, studies of electrical engineering
1990
Graduated, specialized in software engineering, digital speech
processing and radio-frequency engineering
1990-1993
Free University Berlin, studies of Japanese, Chinese and phonetics
January 1993
Granted a two-years'-post-graduate scholarship by the Japanese
Ministery of Education and the German Academic Exchange Agency (DAAD)
April-September 1993
Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japanese language course
October 1993-April 1995
Science University of Tokyo with Prof. Fujisaki, studies in German and
Japanese intonation, analysis of F0 contours
June 1996
Granted a two-years' funding for a research project on prosodic
control in speech synthesis by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
(DFG) at TU Dresden
May 1998
PhD in Electrical Engineering at TU Dresden. Supervisors: Prof.
Rüdiger Hoffmann (TU Dresden), Prof. Hiroya Fujisaki (Science
University of Tokyo), Prof. Eberhard Stock (Halle University)
January-March 1999
Short-term research project in alphabet recognition at Taiwan's
National Chiao Tung University with Prof. Sin-Horng Chen
Since January 2000
DFG-post-doc fellow, working on prosody modeling, post-doc thesis
Supervisors: Prof. Rüdiger Hoffmann (TU Dresden), Prof. Hiroya
Fujisaki (Science University of Tokyo), Prof. John Local (The
University of York)
Employment
1987-1990
Working student with AEG-Sendertechnik, Berlin. Computer simulation of
shortwave antennas, software development
1987-1990
Student assistant in the interdisciplinary research project "Real time
visualization of speech for the hearing impaired", Institute for
Communication Science, Technical University of Berlin. Duties included
hard- and software development for speech processing purposes.
April-September 1990
Development engineer with Telefunken-Sendertechnik (former AEG).
Design of shortwave antennas and networks, software development.
October 1990- March 1993
Research engineer (part time) in the successor project to "Real time
visualization of speech...". Duties included development and testing
of a real time pitch extractor/ spectrum analyzer and various other
software tools for speech processing purposes
November 1995-December 1997
Research engineer with TELES AG, Berlin. Development of speech
technology (speech recognition / synthesis) for telephony
applications, head of speech processing group.
January 1998 -December 1999
Product Manager for software usability and speech integration
November 1996-October 1998
Research assistant in the DFG-funded project "Prosodic control in
Speech Synthesis" at TU Dresden
Since April 1999
Lecturer at the University of Applied Sciences (TFH) Berlin (Digital
Signal Processing)
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Programming skills
Operating Systems:
MS-DOS, Windows, UNIX, VMS-VAX
Languages:
C, Fortran, Pascal
Hardware:
x86, SUN, DSP 32
Further skills and interests
Languages:
German (mother tongue), English (fluent spoken and written), French,
Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and
Thai (all fluent spoken),
Detailed knowledge of linguistics and phonetics
Music (listening, playing and writing), cinema, literature, history,
politics, foreign language teaching, sports (swimming, fitness)
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