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Robert D. Rodman


Associate Professor

Ph. D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1973

Dr. Rodman's research interests are in voice processing, computational linguistics, and applied CTI (computer-telephone interface). He is currently working on such projects as computer identification of speakers by voice, automated lip synchronization, the use of computerized telephone calls in political campaigns, the use of computerized telephone calls to monitor elderly or frail persons living alone. He has also published in the area of performance assessment of speech hardware, use of voice input/output as aids to the handicapped, speech recognition of Chinese, and theoretical linguistics. He is the co-author of a popular linguistics textbook. He is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Speech Technology and a member of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL), and the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

Representative Publications

"Automated Lip-Sync: Direct Translation of Speech-Sound to Mouth-Shape," (with B. Koster and D. Bitzer). Proceedings of the 28th Annual Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, IEEE:1994, pp 36-46.

An Introduction to Language 5/e, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, (with V. Fromkin), 1993.

"A Voice System for the Computer Entry of Chinese Characters," Computer Speech and Language, (with D. Han), Vol. 7, 1993, pp. 1-13.

"Voice Dialogue Systems," (with A. W. Bierman), Intelligent Systems, State of the Art and Future Directions, 1990, pp. 318-336.

"Computer Speech Recognition in Augmentative Communication," Journal of the American Voice I/O Society, Vol. 6, July 1989, pp. 61-76.


Department of Computer Science, Box 8206
College of Engineering,
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC 27695

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