This weeks guest is Kevin Lenzo. Kevin is the CEO of Cepstral LLC based in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania . Greg talks to Kevin about Cepstral, the Festival Speech Technology and the confluence of VoIP and Speech Technology.

Kevin is ABD in the Ph.D. program in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, and is taking leave from his faculty position in the Institute for Software Research International (ISRI) at Carnegie Mellon in order to spend his full energy on Cepstral. He holds a Master of Science in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a BSc in Computer and Information Science from The Ohio State University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, with Distinction in CIS and Honors in the Liberal Arts.

We discuss how VoIP and and Text to Speech Engines intersect on Convergence Servers and look to the future of speech enabled telephony applications.

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