Alexander G. Hauptmann


Greetings, I'm a Senior Systems Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. My research interests are in speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech interfaces and language in general. I'm currently spending most of my time on the Informedia project, in particular on News-on-Demand.

I am also teaching the Multimedia Course (20-859) for the MSEC program together with Mike Christel.
One of the projects is a synthetic Interview: Try talking to a virtual me. You need to have the RealNetworks G2 player installed for this to work!

You can visit me in WeH5124, Weh5316 or at home (here are directions to my house as well as an interactive map).

I can be reached in the following ways:

E-mail is usually a good bet, since I try to check my mail regularly.

You might be interested in some of my online publications.

This is a lecture on IR and Spoken Documents that I gave for the Information Retrieval Class at CMU.
If you'd like to know more about me professionally, you can read an official (postscript) biography.

To keep myself sane, I ride horses, but not very well .
Here is further evidence of my limited riding skill, riding Last Chance at the Stonegate Horse Trials in Hanoverton, OH, September 2001.
I also participate in the Western PA Combined Training Association (WPCTA).

Here are some pictures and video from a trip to South Africa in early 2000.