Daniel J. Sinder, Ph.D.

Research Interests / Areas of Expertise

		Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
		Computational models of speech production based on physical principles
		Speech analysis, speech synthesis, and speech recognition
		Acoustics and aeroacoustics, particularly as related to speech and hearing
		Speech technologies for people with hearing or speech related disabilities
		Human-Computer interfaces; Multi-modal interaction

Academic Degrees

Professional Experience

Avaya Labs Research, Avaya Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ 1/2001--8/2003 Research Scientist, Multimedia Technologies Conducted research on multimedia technologies for use in enterprise communications networks Examined methods for enhancing speech quality in packet-based voice networks (e.g.VoIP) Investigated new approaches for text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis that improve speech quality and system flexibility Implemented first-ever real-time corpus-based concatenative articulatory text-to-speech synthesizer Provided expert advice pertaining to multimedia technologies in Avaya s product and service portfolio MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA 8/1999--12/2000 Member of Technical Staff, Information Systems Technology Group Conducted Department of Defense sponsored research on speech recognition and synthesis Developed speech recognition and synthesis for a two-way bi-lingual (English/Korean) speech-to-speech automatic translation system Trained acoustic and language models for automatic speech recognition Co-authored grant proposals and reports for national funding agencies Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 6/1994--7/1999 Graduate Research Assistant, Multimedia Lab Developed a new computational model for flow-induced sound based on aeroacoustic theory Implemented a speech synthesizer using computational models of speech production and physical acoustics Conducted research on novel approaches for speech recognition and very low bit-rate speech coding Produced first-ever speech sounds synthesized solely from direct numerical simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid motion School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 6/1991--5/1992 Research Assistant Conducted National Science Foundation sponsored research aimed at improving engineering education Designed undergraduate lab experiments focused on circuit design and signal processing Implemented software for laboratory data acquisition

Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

		D. J. Sinder, M. H. Krane, and J. L. Flanagan, "Synthesis of unvoiced speech from an aeroacoustic source model", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.  (in progress)
		Y.-S. Lee, D. J. Sinder, and C. J. Weinstein, "Interlingua based English/Korean two-way speech translation of doctor-patient dialogues with CCLINC", Machine Translation.  (to appear)
		M. Krane, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Reduced-complexity prediction of low-frequency pipe flow noise", Journal of Sound & Vibration.  (to appear)

Book Chapters

M. M. Sondhi and D. J. Sinder, "Articulatory modeling: A role in concatenative text-to-speech synthesis", in Text to Speech Synthesis: New Paradigms and Advances (A. Alwan and S. Narayanan, eds.), Prentice Hall, Nov. 2003.  (estimated publication date)

Invited Talks & Presentations

		"Synthesis of unvoiced speech sounds using an aeroacoustic source model", MIT RLE Speech Communication Group Seminar, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 20, 1999.
		"The adaptive voice mimic for speech synthesis, recognition, and coding", SpeechTEK '98 Conference & Exhibition, New York Hilton & Towers, New York, NY, Oct. 27--28, 1998.
		"A model for aerodynamic noise generation with application to speech synthesis", United Technologies Research Center, East Hartford, CT, Aug. 21, 1998.
		"Multimodal human-computer interaction", Fourth Annual Coalition for National Science Funding Exhibition and Reception, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, May 20, 1998.
		"The voice mimic system: An alternative approach for speech synthesis, recognition, and coding", Multimedia Technology Group Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Mar. 6, 1998.
		"The adaptive voice mimic system", Fourth Annual Workshop on Hypercomputing and Design (HPCD), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, July 18, 1997.
		"Biometrics for national security: Speech and images", Basic Research in the National Defense: University Contributions to Defense Technology, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC, May 9, 1996.

Conference Papers & Technical Reports

		S. Chennoukh, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Voice mimic system", Tech. Rep. CAIP-TR-228, Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, July 1998.
		D. J. Sinder, M. H. Krane, and J. L. Flanagan, "Synthesis of fricative sounds using an aeroacoustic noise generation model", in Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Seattle, WA), June 1998.
		M. Krane, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Approximate computational model for sound generation due to unsteady flows in pipes", in Proceedings of the 16th International Congress on Acoustics and 135th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, (Seattle, WA), June 1998.
		S. Chennoukh, D. Sinder, G. Richard, and J. L. Flanagan, "Voice mimic system using an articulatory codebook for estimation of vocal tract shape", in Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 97, (Rhodes, Greece), pp. 429--432, Sept. 1997.
		S. E. Levinson, M. H. Krane, R. A. Kubli, C. H. Coker, J. L. Flanagan, G. Richard, D. Sinder, D. W. Davis, and S. Slimon, "Studying the effects of fluid dynamics on speech production", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Simulation, Visualization, and Auralization for Acoustic Research and Education (ASVA97), (Tokyo, Japan), pp. 31--38, Apr. 1997.
		G. Richard, M. Goirand, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Simulation and visualization of articulatory trajectories estimated from speech signals", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Simulation, Visualization and Auralization for Acoustic Research and Education (ASVA97), (Tokyo, Japan), Apr. 1997.
		D. Sinder, G. Richard, H. Duncan, J. Flanagan, S. Slimon, D. Davis, M. Krane, and S. Levinson, "Flow visualization in stylized vocal tracts", in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Simulation, Visualization and Auralization for Acoustic Research and Education (ASVA97), (Tokyo, Japan), Apr. 1997.
		S. Levinson, M. Krane, G. Richard, D. Sinder, H. Duncan, Q. Lin, J. Flanagan, S. Slimon, D. Davis, and R. Kubli, "Computational models for speech generation", in Proceedings of the International Conference of Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 96), (Philadelphia, PA), Oct. 1996.
		S. Slimon, D. Davis, S. Levinson, M. Krane, G. Richard, D. Sinder, H. Duncan, Q. Lin, and J. Flanagan, "Low mach number flow through a constricted, stylized vocal tract", in Proceedings of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Conference (AIAA96), (State College, PA), May 1996.
		D. Sinder, G. Richard, H. Duncan, Q. Lin, J. Flanagan, S. Levinson, D. Davis, and S. Slimon, "A fluid flow approach to speech generation", in Proceedings of the First ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Production Modeling: From Control Strategies to Acoustics, (Autrans, France), May 1996.
		G. Richard, M. Liu, D. Sinder, H. Duncan, Q. Lin, J. Flanagan, S. Levinson, D. Davis, and S. Slimon, "Numerical simulations of fluid flow in the vocal tract, in Proceedings of EUROSPEECH 95, (Madrid, Spain), pp. 1297--1300, Sept. 1995.

Published Abstracts

		D. J. Sinder and M. M. Sondhi, "Text-to-speech from concatenation of articulatory units derived from natural speech", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 113, no. 4, p. 2199, Apr. 2003.
		M. Krane, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Synthesis of unvoiced speech sounds using an aeroacoustic source model", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 105, no. 2, p. 1160, Feb. 1999.
		S. Chennoukh, D. Sinder, G. Richard, and J. Flanagan, "Articulatory based low bit-rate speech coding", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 102, no. 5, p. 3163, Nov. 1997.
		M. Krane, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Approximate model for sound generation due to unsteady flows in pipes", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 102, no. 5, p. 3180, Nov. 1997.
		D. Sinder, M. Krane, and J. Flanagan, "An aeroacoustic fricative source model", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 102, no. 5, p. 3163, Nov. 1997.
		D. Sinder, M. Krane, S. Chennoukh, G. Richard, J. Flanagan, S. Levinson, S. Slimon, and D. Davis, "Fluid dynamic studies of speech production", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 101, no. 5, p. 3179, May 1997.
		G. Richard, Q. Lin, F. Zussa, D. Sinder, C. Che, and J. Flanagan, "Vowel recognition using an articulatory representation", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 98, no. 5, pt. 2, pp. 2965--2966, Nov. 1995.
		F. Zussa, L. Q., G. Richard, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Open-loop acoustic-to-articulatory mapping", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 98, no. 5, p. 2931, Nov. 1995.
		G. Richard, M. Liu, D. Sinder, H. Duncan, Q. Lin, J. Flanagan, S. Levinson, D. Davis, and S. Slimon, "Vocal tract simulations based on fluid dynamic analysis", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 97, no. 5, p. 3245, May 1995.
		Q. Lin, G. Richard, J. Zou, D. Sinder, and J. Flanagan, "Use of TRACTTALK for adaptive voice mimic", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 97, no. 5, p. 3247, May 1995.

Professional Development Courses, Workshops, and Tutorials

		Hearing in Three-Dimensions, A tutorial lecture presented at The 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham (presenter), Nashville, TN, April 28, 2003.
		IEEE 2002 Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Santa Monica, CA, September 11-13, 2002.
		Practical Pattern Classification Using Neural Networks, Statistics, and Machine Learning, Richard P. Lippmann (instructor), 10 session MIT Lincoln Laboratory course, Sep. 7 Dec. 7, 2000.
		DARPA Communicator Dry Run Workshop, Charleston, SC, January 20-21, 2000.
		Speech Recognition System Design Review, Institute for Signal and Information Processing, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, January 5-7, 2000.
		1998 NSFWorkshop for Discussing Research Priorities and Evaluation Strategies in Speech Synthesis,Washington, DC, August 1998.

Professional Memberships & Service

		Member, Acoustical Society of America
		Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
		Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society
		Member, Audio Engineering Society
		Reviewer, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
		Reviewer, Computer Speech and Language
		Reviewer, IEEE Signal Processing Letters