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Dr. Joseph Olive
Program Manager
Bio:
Dr. Olive has had over thirty years of experience in research and development at Bell Laboratories and 19 years of experience in management. He has been the world leader in research of text-to-speech synthesis and has managed a world-class team in computer dialogue systems and human-computer communication. In his role as director of speech research and CTO of Lucent's Business Unit, Lucent Speech Solutions, he supervised the productization of Bell-Labs core speech technologies: Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), Text-to-Speech Synthesis (TTS), and Speaker Verification (SV). He also led the dialogue research team in creating a "next-generation" dialogue system for e-mail reading and navigation.
Dr. Olive graduated from the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in Physics. While he was a graduate student, his research consisted of computational atomic physics requiring intensive use of computers for the computation of electron distribution functions. He was also a member of the University of Chicago 's computer center. Dr. Olive also earned an M.A. in music composition, a degree that he used to pursue a side career in writing music for small chamber groups and orchestras, computer music, and an opera for a computer, soprano, and small ensemble. After leaving the University of Chicago, Dr. Olive combined his interest in computation and his interest in music and began research in acoustics and signal processing.
Dr. Olive was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts grant in 1974 to write a computer opera. He was also the recipient of the Bell-Labs' Distinguished Member of Technical Staff award in 1984.
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