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Bunnell’s primary research interests are in biomedical and clinical applications of speech technology for the diagnosis and remediation of hearing and speech disorders, particularly in pediatric patients. Since 2000, he has also served as director of the Nemours Biomedical Research Department’s Bioinformatics Core, providing expertise in applications development, statistics, data mining, and numerical analysis. Bunnell is now the director of the Nemours Center for Pediatric Auditory and Speech Sciences(CPASS) and head of the Speech Research Laboratory within the CPASS. Hawking, 72, who has a motor neuron disease and is almost entirely paralyzed, relies on the technology to speak.
duPont Hospital for Children where his research interests expanded to include text to speech synthesis and speech recognition. Stephen Hawkings computer speech system got a modern upgrade from engineers at Intel who added predictive text to the decades-old program the scientist uses to communicate with the world. In 1989 he became the director of the Speech Processing Laboratory at the Alfred I. From 1983 to 1989, he worked as a Research Scientist in the Sensory Communication Research Laboratory (later Center for Auditory and Speech Sciences) at Gallaudet University conducting research on the application of digital speech processing techniques to hearing enhancement, primarily for acoustic hearing aid users. in Experimental Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University in 1983, concentrating in human speech perception and the acoustic properties of speech (acoustic phonetics). This presentation will describe the existing technology for developing personal TTS voices and emerging technology that will allow us to provide personal voices for patients-notably children-whose dysarthria precludes normal voice banking.ĭr.
This technology is used for “Voice Banking” by patients diagnosed with neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS who are able to create personal TTS voices for use in communication devices when they are no longer able to speak. Why must my child sound like Stephen Hawking: Personalized Synthetic Voices for Pediatric Assistive CommunicationĮxisting speech synthesis technology allows us to record fluent speech from an individual and, using machine learning, develop a Text To Speech (TTS) “voice” that sounds like the individual.