Biography:Kevin Lenzo

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Short description: American computer scientist

Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist.[1] He wrote the initial infobot, founded The Perl Foundation (and was its chairman until 2007[2]) and the Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPC).,[3] released CMU Sphinx into Open source, founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the Festival Speech Synthesis System, FestVox, and Flite. His voice is the basis for a number of synthetic voices, including FreeTTS, Flite, and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice. He has also contributed Perl modules to CPAN. Kevin was also a founding member of the 1980s funk band "Leftover Funk" and the "Petty Punkasses" in 1998.

See also

  • YAPC, the Yet Another Perl Conferences, founded by Kevin Lenzo
  • The Perl Foundation, co-founded with Kurt DeMaagd
  • Flite, Festival Speech Synthesis System and in particular kal_diphone (Kevin A Lenzo) made from his voice, and FestVox for building synthetic voices
  • The Infobot, an Internet Relay Chat agent
  • CMU Sphinx which he released into Open Source
  • FreeTTS, a Java port of Flite
  • The Perl Programming Language
  • The White Camel Awards
  • CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  • Cepstral LLC

References

  1. ↑ IT Conversations: Kevin Lenzo - Text to Speech: Make It Talk, recorded 2006-01-25
  2. ↑ Perl Foundation: Perl Foundation Board of Directors election, new people, new positions, accessed 2010-07-10
  3. ↑ "The Timeline of Perl and its Culture". http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html. 




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