Paul Taylor

Samat Talipov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Takashi Tatsumi, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan Paul Taylor University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Paolo Tecilla, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy... 

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Paul Taylor is a Visiting Lecturer in Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Executive Officer of Phonetic Arts. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Edinburgh University, where he went on to serve as a lecturer and Director in the Centre for Speech Technology Research. He was also a co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Rhetorical Systems. 

It is the success of unit selection speech synthesis systems that has motivated the research of Paul Taylor, the author of this book on text-to-speech synthesis systems. Paul Taylor has been in the thick of the research in speech synthesis systems for more than 15 years, having worked at ATR in Japan on the CHATR synthesizer (the system that actually demonstrated near perfect speech quality on some subset of the sentences that were input), at the Centre for Speech Technology research at the University of Edinburgh on the Festival synthesis system, and as Chief Teehnieal Officer of Rhetorical Systems, also in Edinburgh. 

Taylor, P. 2013. Rigging the death rate. The London Review of Books. Available at http //www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n07/paul-taylor/rigging-the-death-rate (last accessed on 30 April 2014). 

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