Roberto Pieraccini

Whereabouts

I was born in Italy, grew up in Viareggio, and studied Electronics Engineering at the Universita' degli Studi di Pisa.

From 1981 to 1989 I worked at CSELT (Centro Studi E Laboratori Telecomunicazioni) in Torino, Italy. Most of the people I worked with at CSELT are now part of Loquendo

In 1990 I moved to the United States. I was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, in Murray Hill, New Jersey and then at AT&T Shannon Laboratories, in Florham Park, New Jersey.

From 1999 to 2003 I worked at SpeechWorks International (now Nuance)

From 2003 to 2005 I was a Research Staff Member and then manager at the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.

From 2005 to 2011 I was the CTO of SpeechCycle in Manhattan.

I am now the Director of ICSI, the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, CA, an independent research organization affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley.

Whatabouts

Since 1981 I have been working on several aspects related to machines that talk and understand speech.

I wrote a book on the history and technology of computers that understand speech with the title “The Voice and the Machine.”

Artistic photography is my current passion.

robertopieraccini@yahoo.com