Office: Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email: cbennett@cs.cmu.edu
Web: www.cs.cmu.edu/~cbennett
Teaching Assistant, Fall 2004
Course: Grammars and
Lexicons
Instructors: Lori Levin and
Teruko Mitamura
Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Language Technologies Institute
August 1998 to August 2001
Position: Research Assistant, Communicator Project
Full time
Responsibilities:
Management of Speech Transcription Effort
Error Analysis of CMU Communicator Dialog System Logs
Maintenance of System Dictionary and Grammar
Periodic Maintenance of Databases and NLG
Additional work history available upon request.
Bennett, C. L., "Large Scale Evaluation of Corpus-based Synthesizers: Results and Lessons from the Blizzard Challenge 2005," In Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.
Kominek, J., Bennett, C., Langner, B., and Toth, A., "The Blizzard Challenge 2005 CMU Entry, a method for improving speech synthesis systems," In Proceedings of Interspeech 2005 - Eurospeech, Lisbon, Portugal, 2005.
Bennett, C. L. and Black, A. W., "Prediction of Pronunciation Variations for Speech Synthesis: A Data-driven Approach," in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005.
Bennett, C. L. and Black, A. W., "Using Acoustic Models to Choose Pronunciation Variations for Synthetic Voices," in Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.
Kominek, J., Bennett, C. and Black, A. W., "Evaluating and Correcting Phoneme Segmentation for Unit Selection Synthesis," in Proceedings of Eurospeech, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003.
Bennett, C. and Rudnicky, A. I., "The Carnegie Mellon Communicator Corpus," in Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado, 2002.
Bennett, C., Font Llitjos, A., Shriver, S., Rudnicky, A., and Black, A. W., "Building VoiceXML-Based Applications," in Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, Denver, Colorado, 2002.
Bennett, C., "A Comparative Analysis of DARPA Communicator Systems," Presentation at DARPA Communicator PI Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, July 2001. (info available by request)
Rudnicky, A., Bennett, C., Black, A., Chotimongkol, A., Lenzo, K., Oh, A., Singh, R., "Task and Domain Specific Modelling in the Carnegie Mellon Communicator System," in Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing, Beijing, China, 2000.
Eskenazi, M., Rudnicky, A., Gregory, K., Constantinides, P., Brennan, R., Bennett, C., Allen, J., "Data Collection and Processing in the Carnegie Mellon Communicator," in Proceedings of the Eurospeech Conference, Budapest, Hungary, 1999.
Available upon request