Douglas O'Shaughnessy
INRS-TELECOMMUNICATIONS, McGill University, Canada
Douglas O'Shaughnessy has been a Professor
at INRS-Télécommunications (University
of Quebec) in Montreal, Canada,
since 1977. For this same period, he has
been an Adjunct Professor in the Department
of Electrical Engineering, McGill University.
Dr. O'Shaughnessy has worked as a
Teacher and Researcher in the speech communication
field for 30 years. His interests
include automatic speech synthesis, analysis,
coding, and recognition. His research team is currently working
to improve various aspects of automatic voice dialogues in English
and French. He received his education from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, MA (B.S. and M.S. degrees in
1972; Ph.D. degree in 1976). He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society
of America (1992) and an IEEE Senior Member (1989). From
1995 to 1999, he served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions
on Speech and Audio Processing, and has been an Associate
Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America since
1998. Dr. O'Shaughnessy has been selected as the General Chair of
the 2004 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal
Processing (ICASSP) in Montreal, Canada. He is the Author of
the textbook Speech Communications: Human and Machine (IEEE
Press, 2000).
Biography Updated on 6 December 2002
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