Kevin Lenzo Explained

Kevin Lenzo (born 1967) is an American computer scientist.^[1] He wrote the initial infobot, founded The Perl Foundation (and was its chairman until 2007^[2]) and the Yet Another Perl Conferences (YAPC).,^[3] released CMU Sphinx into Open source, founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the Festival Speech Synthesis System, FestVox, and Flite. His voice is the basis for a number of synthetic voices, including FreeTTS, Flite, and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice. He has also contributed Perl modules to CPAN. Kevin was also a founding member of the 1980s funk band "Leftover Funk" and the "Petty Punkasses" in 1998.

See also

• YAPC, the Yet Another Perl Conferences, founded by Kevin Lenzo
• The Perl Foundation, co-founded with Kurt DeMaagd
• Flite, Festival Speech Synthesis System and in particular kal_diphone (Kevin A Lenzo) made from his voice, and FestVox for building synthetic voices
• The Infobot, an Internet Relay Chat agent
• CMU Sphinx which he released into Open Source
• FreeTTS, a Java port of Flite
• The Perl Programming Language
• The White Camel Awards
• CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• Cepstral LLC

Notes and References

1. http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1660.html IT Conversations: Kevin Lenzo - Text to Speech: Make It Talk
2. http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_foundation_board_of_directors_election_new_people_new_positions Perl Foundation: Perl Foundation Board of Directors election, new people, new positions
3. Web site: The Timeline of Perl and its Culture.