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Patti Price
founded PPRICE Speech and Language Technology
in 2001. Clients include large companies
(Hewlett-Packard, France Telecom, SRI) and their
spinoff companies; universities (Carnegie Mellon
University, University of California Los
Angeles) and spinoffs; small companies
(Ordinate, ReadyGo, Shalon Ventures); and the U.S. government
In 2000 with Joe Costello and Luc Julia, she
founded
BravoBrava! As COO and VP of Business
Development, she organized the company to serve
as a matchmaker between information technologies
and applications in education, transitioning
technology with existing companies, through
prototype development, and by creation of new
companies, e.g., SUP Inc. (now
Soliloquy Learning).
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"...through her attention to the new product and continually
seeking to protect the interests of all participants, Dr. Price
played the critical role in successfully leading the Lab through
that transition and beyond."
- Don Nielson, SRI
Vice President during the creation of Nuance |
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She spent 12 years at SRI International, where she was the director of
the Speech
Technology and Research Lab (1993-1999), supervising the
creation and transition of technology including the co-founding of
Nuance Communications.
She also developed and led a Technology Reinvestment Program to
commercialize language education software. After leaving SRI she
consulted to SRI and also helped
think3 develop a
novel speech interface for their 3D computer aided design product. |
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Before joining SRI she was a scientist at
Bolt, Beranek and Newman
(1984 - 1988), and at
France
Telecom’s research center, CNET, Lannion, France (1984). She was
also a Postdoctoral Fellow at
MIT’s Research
Laboratory of Electronics (1981-1984) and a Research Assistant as a grad
student at
Haskins Laboratories (1978-1981). She holds a PhD in linguistics
from the University of
Pennsylvania. |
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Member, AVIOS Board of Directors |
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AVIOS (Applied Voice Input/Output Society)
Board, 2003-present
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Invited speaker and organizer of symposium
on Humans, Computers and Language, American Association for the
Advancement of Science, 2000
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Permanent council International Conference
on Spoken Language Processing, 1994-2000; invited organizer of
special session 2006: Speech and Language Technology in Educational
Applications
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Editorial Board, Computer Speech and
Language
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Association for Computational Linguistics
Editorial Board 1989-1991
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IEEE ICASSP organizational committee 1992,
San Francisco
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Numerous reviews for National Science
Foundation, Small Business Innovative Research, and journals,
including Speech Communication, Journal of the Acoustical Society of
America, Journal of Phonetics, Computational Linguistics, IEEE
Transactions Speech and Audio Processing, Language and Speech,
Perception and Psychophysics, as well as for conferences.
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Volunteer and Technology Advisor, YES
Reading since 2001
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Founding member, Editorial Board,
Journal of Dialogue Systems
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Technology Advisor and Tutor, YES
Reading |
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