Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Joseph P. Olive, department head of the Text-to-Speech Research Department at Bell Laboratories of Lucent Technologies, works on linguistics, processing, prosody (melody, timing, and loudness), and sound generation. The synthesizer resulting from this work is capable of speaking English, Chinese, Spanish, German, French, Russian, Italian, Romanian, and Navajo; it has been on display at the AT&T exhibit at the Epcot Center since its opening. He holds degrees in music theory and composition, as well as physics, from the University of Chicago. He received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and was named a distinguished member of technical staff at Bell laboratories. He holds several patents in text-to-speech processing and has written numerous articles in this and related fields, including Acoustics of American English Speech. His opera, Mar-ri-ia-a, has been performed at the Carnegie Recital Hall and elsewhere.