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Professor Mark Tatham

Emeritus Professor
Department of Language and Linguistics
Professor Mark Tatham

Profile

Biography

He received his BA (in French and Russian) and PhD (in Linguistics) from the University of Leeds. He came to Essex in 1967 from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has been visiting teacher and researcher at several universities, including the Ohio State University in Columbus. His main research areas involve the simulation of human performance by computer (especially the production and perception of speech), and he is currently working on prosodic patterns in synthetic speech. He has published a variety of papers in his area of research including several since 1980 on the application of artificial intelligence techniques in speech synthesis & automatic speech recognition.

Qualifications

  • BA Leeds,

  • PhD Leeds,

Publications

Journal articles (1)

Tatham, M. and Morton, K., (2003). Data structures in speech production. Journal of the International Phonetic Association. 33 (1), 17-49

Books (3)

Tatham, M. and Morton, K., (2006). Speech Production and Perception. Palgrave Macmillan. 9781403917324

Tatham, M. and Morton, K., (2006). Expression in Speech Analysis and Synthesis. Oxford University Press, USA. 0199208778. 9780199208777

Tatham, M. and Morton, K., (2005). Developments in Speech Synthesis. Wiley-Blackwell. 978-0-470-85538-6

Book chapters (1)

Tatham, M., (2005). Feature Theory. In: Encyclopedia of Linguistics,. Editors: Strazny, P., . Fitzroy Dearborn. 978-1579584504

Contact

maat@essex.ac.uk

Location:

Colchester Campus