Steven R. Hoskins

810 Village Circle C, Newark, Delaware 19713
(302) 651-6843 (business) -- (302) 738-1034 (home)
Internet e-mail - hoskins@asel.udel.edu
Web page: http://www.asel.udel.edu/~hoskins

• Research and development in speech technology or natural language processing.

• Ph.D. - Linguistics - University of Delaware (1997)
• M.A. - Linguistics - University of Delaware (1993)
• Bachelor - Electrical Engineering - University of Delaware (1982)

• Speech Research, Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children, Wilmington DE. (8/94-present)
  • Designed, implemented, and tested a natural language processing front end for a diphone speech synthesizer. The NLP front end accepts unrestricted text input, and uses several rule systems to calculate lexical, part of speech, and prosodic information.
  • Ported the synthesizer from UNIX (Sun-OS) to Windows 95.
  • Developed a Spanish language front end for the diphone synthesizer.
  • Supported the designers of the automatic diphone extractor, the automatic speech labeler, and the inventory builder in developing and testing these utilities, and integrating them into the process of capturing voices for speech synthesis.
• Linguistics Department, University of Delaware, Newark DE. (11/91-8/94 and 2/95-5/95)
  • Instructor for Laboratory Phonetics and Introduction to Linguistics
  • Research Assistant in a phonetic study of English, stress, and focus
• Allen Bradley, Highland Heights, OH. (4/90-8/91)
  • Designed and maintained CNC controller software.
  • Worked in Turin, Italy for Olivetti OSAI/AB joint venture (6/90-11/90)
• Raytheon Equipment Division, Marlboro, MA. (8/87-4/90 and 1/82-6/84)
  • Designed software for RF and EHF modems in C, Ada, and 80286 assembly.
  • Designed microprogram and 8086 based plasma panel controllers.

• Fenwal Incoporated, Ashland MA. (6/84-8/87)
  • Developed software for fire and overheat protection systems for aircraft

• Bunnell, H.T., Hoskins, S.R., and Yarrington, D. (1998). "Non-traditional acoustic features of focus". Proceedings of the ICA/ASA 98.
• Bunnell, H.T., Hoskins, S.R. and Yarrington, D. (1997). "Interactions among f0, amplitude, and duration in the perception of focus". Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 101,3200.
• Hoskins, S.R. (1997). "On the phonology and phonetics of broad and narrow focus in English". Doctoral dissertation.
• Hoskins, S.R. (1997). "The prosody of broad and narrow focus in English: two experiments". Proceedings of Eurospeech 97.
• Hoskins, S.R., Bunnell, H.T., and D. Yarrington (1997). "Prosody in the ASEL synthesizer". Proceedings of the RESNA 97 conference.
• Hoskins, S.R. (1996). "A phonetic study of broad and narrow focus in intransitive verb sentences". Proceedings of ICSLP 96.
• Vogel, I., and Hoskins, S.R. (1996). "The interaction of clash, focus and phonological phrasing". Proceedings of ICSLP 96.
• Vogel, I., Bunnell, H.T., and Hoskins, S.R. (1995). "The phonology and phonetics of the rhythm rule". Phonology and phonetic evidence: Papers from Laboratory Phonology IV eds. B. Connell,A. Arvanti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Hoskins, S.R. (1994). "Secondary stress and stress clash resolution in French: an empirical investigation". 1994. Issues and Theory in Romance Linguistics ed. M. Mazzola. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press.

• Programming Languages - C, C++, FORTRAN, Ada
• Platforms/Operating Systems - UNIX,Windows 95, DOS
• Speech analysis software - Entropic Waves, Signalyze, SpeechLab II
• Statistical analysis software - SAS, SPSS

• Excellent French skills (Certificat Pratique de Francais Commercial et Economique, 1988)
• good Italian skills, some Spanish and Portuguese.
• Experienced in ToBI prosodic analysis
• Experienced in designing and conducting speech production and perception experiments.