Author bios
Chris Schmandt
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: geek@media.mit.edu). Mr. Schmandt received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from MIT, where he has been building speech systems since 1979. He is the director of the Speech Interfaces Group at the Media Laboratory, a position he has held since the creation of the Lab. His current research focuses on user interfaces and applications of speech processing technology, voice as a data type on workstations and hand-held computers, and computer-mediated telephony.
Deb Roy
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: dkroy@media.mit.edu). Mr. Roy received the B.A.Sc. degree in computer engineering from the University of Waterloo in 1992, and the M.Sc. degree from the Media Laboratory in 1995, where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. His research interests include automatic language acquisition, multimodal interfaces, speech and speaker recognition, and audio structuring and retrieval.
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