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Madelaine Plauché
 | Born and raised in Austin, Texas in the 1970's, she attended high school in Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium, then returned to Austin for college at the University of Texas. In 1995, she moved to Berkeley, California for graduate studies in linguistics. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001, specializing in acoustic phonetics. She worked as a Grand Canyon river guide for four years and as a speech researcher for the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) on the TIER (Technology and Infrastructure for Emerging Regions) project. She continues to develop multilingual open source software tools for humanitarian organizations with her husband, Richard Carlson.
General research interests include phonetics, the acoustics of sound, speech recognition, auditory processing, cognitive linguistics, sociolinguistics and literacy. My current area of focus is how speech recognition might play a role in increasing IT access to the substantial population of illiterate people in the developing world. Madelaine's CV and ICSI website. |
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Richard Carlson
 | Richard Carlson is an open source software developer with over 10 years of experience working in a variety of areas including cross-platform application development, server development, and entertainment software development. His most recent industry work has been developing reliable and secure music information servers at Gracenote (formerly CDDB) which answered 6 billion searches in 2006.
Since leaving Gracenote in 2004, Richard has devoted his time to developing the open source applications Open Spell, Open Sesame, and Open Survey while supporting them in the field. Richard's primary interest is open-source software development using low cost technologies. He received his degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin in 1996. |
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