Manny Rayner
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Contact information: ISSCO/TIM/ETI, University of Geneva 40 bd. du Pont-d'Arve CH-1211 Geneva 4 Switzerland |
Tel: +41 22 379 8679 Fax: +41 22 379 8689 Office number: 6333  |
Background and Research Interests
I have a B.A. in Mathematics from Cambridge University, England, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stockholm University, Sweden. Before joining Geneva University, I have worked at a number of places, including SRI International, NASA Ames Research Center, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science and two speech and language startups. At SRI, I led the Spoken Language Translator project from 1993 to 1999. At NASA, I was lead implementor between 2002 and 2005 on Clarissa, a project which produced a voice-enabled procedure browser that was tested live on the International Space Station in June 2005. This is still the only voice-enabled system ever to have been used in space.
Since 2001, my research activities have mainly centred around Regulus, an Open Source platform for building grammar-based speech applications. Regulus has been used to build over a dozen large applications, including Geneva University's MedSLT and NASA's Clarissa.
Publications
- The Spoken Language Translator M. Rayner, D. Carter, P. Bouillon, V. Digalakis and M. Wiren. Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Putting Linguistics into Speech Recognition: The Regulus Grammar Compiler M. Rayner, B.A. Hockey and P. Bouillon. CSLI Press, 2006.