Carol Y. Espy-Wilson

EDUCATION

B.S., 1979, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

M.S., 1981, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ph.D, 1987, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Professor Espy-Wilson's research interests include the integration of engineering, linguistics and speech science to study speech communication. She is developing an approach to speech recognition based on phonetic features to address the limitations of present recognizers (e.g., speaker dependence). She also conducts research in the areas of speech production and speech enhancement. A major focus of her research is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between articulation, acoustics and perception. This knowledge is important for speech recognition, speech synthesis and the study of speech impairments. Prof. Espy-Wilson heads the Speech Communication Lab where postdoctoral, graduate and undergraduate students perform research. Professor Espy-Wilson teaches the advanced graduate level course, Digital Speech Processing (ENEE739A).

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

1. O. Deshmukh, C. Espy-Wilson and A. Salomon, and Jawahar Singh (accepted) “Use of Temporal Information: Detection of the Periodicity, Aperiodicity and Pitch in Speech," IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing.
2. Tarun Pruthi and Carol Espy-Wilson (2004) “Acoustic Parameters for Automatic Detection of Nasal Manner,” Speech Communication, vol. 43, no. 3, pp.225-239.
3. Zhaoyan Zhang and Carol Espy-Wilson (2004); A vocal tract model for American English /l/,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 1274-1280.
4. A. Salomon, C. Espy-Wilson and Om Deshmukh (2004) “Detection of Speech Landmarks: Use of Temporal Information," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 115, no. 3, pp. 1296-1305.
5. C.Y. Espy-Wilson, S. Boyce, M. Jackson, S. Narayanan and A. Alwan (2000) “Acoustic Modeling of American English /r/,” Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, pp. 343-356.

HONORS AND AWARDS

2003 Best Student Paper Award in Speech Communication at the Acoustical Society of America Meeting (student co-author: Om Deshmukh)

2001 Best Student Paper Award in Speech Communication at the Acoustical Society of America Meeting (student co-author: Om Deshmukh)

1998 National Institutes of Health Independent Scientist Award

1990 Clare Booth Luce Professorship

1990 National Science Foundation Minority Initiation Award

1981 Xerox Fellow