changed: - (Germany) Presentation/Talk: One of the following - "Really-Realtime Text-To-Speech Synthesis": experiences with "ratts":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd/ratts.tar.gz and Pd. - "Music as a Formal Language": a cookbook for the shameless misuse of linguistically motivated algorithms and data structures for the generation of odd noises. Workshop (?): If desired, I could conceivably offer a workshop on text-to-speech synthesis with Pd, touching on "ratts":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd/ratts.tar.gz , "flite":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd/pd-flite.tar.gz , and "festival":http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival.html , by way of "SayWhat":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/saywhat/SayWhat.tar.gz . Concert/Performance (?): "Hour of Babble" *(well, probably not that long, really)* - Nigh unto incessant live-generated synthetic chatter converging to chaos. Bio: - Developer of open-source software for audio and language processing, - Author of "ratts":http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~moocow/projects/pd/ratts.tar.gz , "Realtime Analogue Text-To-Speech" external library for Pd, based on Nick Ing-Simmons' "rsynth":ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/pub/comp.speech/synthesis/rsynth-2.0.tar.gz . - Generally underspecified aural hacker. Academic Bio: - **2003-2004** Instructor and PhD student, Institute for Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany - **2002-2003** Research Assistant, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences - **1996-2002** *Diplom* Computational Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany - **1992-1996** BA Philosophy, Northwestern University, USA