Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist. He wrote the initial
infobot, founded
The Perl Foundation
The Perl Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. It is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl and Raku (programming language) programming languages through open discussion, collaboration, design, an ...
(and was its chairman until 2007) and the
Yet Another Perl Conference
Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC), from 2016–2019 called The Perl Conference (TPC), from 2020 on The Perl and Raku Conference, is a series of conferences discussing the Perl programming language, usually organized under the auspices of The Perl ...
s (YAPC).,
released
CMU Sphinx
CMU Sphinx, also called Sphinx for short, is the general term to describe a group of speech recognition systems developed at Carnegie Mellon University. These include a series of speech recognizers (Sphinx 2 - 4) and an acoustic model traine ...
into
Open source
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, founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the
Festival Speech Synthesis System
The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Substa ...
, FestVox, and Flite. His voice is the basis for a number of
synthetic voice
Speech synthesis is the artificial production of human speech. A computer system used for this purpose is called a speech synthesizer, and can be implemented in software or hardware products. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal langua ...
s, including
FreeTTS
FreeTTS is an open source speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java programming language. It is based upon Flite. FreeTTS is an implementation of Sun's Java Speech API.
FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers. Gnopernicus uses these i ...
,
Flite, and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice. He has also contributed
Perl
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offici ...
modules to
CPAN
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors. ''CPAN'' can denote eith ...
. Kevin was also a founding member of the 1980s funk band "Leftover Funk"
See also
*
YAPC
Yet Another Perl Conference (YAPC), from 2016–2019 called The Perl Conference (TPC), from 2020 on The Perl and Raku Conference, is a series of conferences discussing the Perl programming language, usually organized under the auspices of The Perl ...
, the Yet Another Perl Conferences, founded by Kevin Lenzo
*
The Perl Foundation
The Perl Foundation (TPF) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in Holland, Michigan. It is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl and Raku (programming language) programming languages through open discussion, collaboration, design, an ...
, co-founded with Kurt DeMaagd
*
Flite,
Festival Speech Synthesis System
The Festival Speech Synthesis System is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black, Paul Taylor and Richard Caley at the Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. Substa ...
and in particular kal_diphone (Kevin A Lenzo) made from his voice, and FestVox for building
synthetic voices
* The
Infobot, an
Internet Relay Chat
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agent
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Espionage, investigation, and law
*, spies or intelligence officers
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** Agent of record, a person with a contractual agreement with an insuranc ...
*
CMU Sphinx
CMU Sphinx, also called Sphinx for short, is the general term to describe a group of speech recognition systems developed at Carnegie Mellon University. These include a series of speech recognizers (Sphinx 2 - 4) and an acoustic model traine ...
which he released into Open Source
*
FreeTTS
FreeTTS is an open source speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java programming language. It is based upon Flite. FreeTTS is an implementation of Sun's Java Speech API.
FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers. Gnopernicus uses these i ...
, a Java port of Flite
* The
Perl
Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offici ...
Programming Language
* The
White Camel Awards
*
CPAN
The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) is a repository of over 250,000 software modules and accompanying documentation for 39,000 distributions, written in the Perl programming language by over 12,000 contributors. ''CPAN'' can denote eith ...
, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
*
Cepstral LLC
References
American computer scientists
Computational linguistics researchers
Living people
1967 births
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