| Bio | Dr Kate Knill is currently a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge Universityworking on the BABEL and RATS projects. She has over 20 years experience inspeech recognition and speech synthesis. From 1993 to 1996, she was a ResearchAssociate in the Speech Vision and Robotics Group in the Engineering Departmentat Cambridge University working on audio document retrieval, supervised byProf. Steve Young and funded by HP Labs, Bristol. She joined the Speech R &D team of Nuance Communications in 1997. As Languages Manager (2000 - 2002), sheled a cross-site team that developed over 20 languages for speech recognitionand speaker verification. In 2002, she established a new Speech TechnologyGroup at Toshiba Research Europe, Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL), Cambridge,U.K. As Assistant Managing Director and Speech Technology Group Leader she wasresponsible for interactive technology, in particular core speech recognitionand synthesis R & D and development of European and North American speechproducts. The Cambridge team led the creation of new speech recognition andspeech synthesis engines for Toshiba for which Kate served as project lead acrosssites in the UK, Japan and China. She is currently a member of the ISCA Boardand an Area Chair for Interspeech 2014. |