Benjamin C. Blanchard

MLT Student

Carnegie Mellon University

3612 Newell Simon Hall

email: bblancha [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu

Advisor: Dr. Alan Black

Classes:

Fall 2006

Grammars and Lexicons
Algorithms for NLP

Spring 2007

Language and Statistics
Speech II: Phonetics, Prosody, Perception and Synthesis

I'm currently working on the Storyteller project in text-to-speech, attempting to create synthetic voices that can read story texts as naturally as possible.

Background:

I have a B.A. in lingustics and philosophy from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. At the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, I worked as a research programmer on the Mallard project, a quizzing and course information application. I also studied NLP there with Professor Richard Sproat.