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Susan Hertz is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Cornell University. Her research is centered on the universal principles of human speech perception and how these principles influence the organization of speech patterns. Currently, she is developing a theory that investigates how listeners extract phonological structure and information such as speaker identity and emotional state from speech signals. In addition, her work aims to clarify how listeners parse speech, with a theoretical framework that imposes constraints on variations in speech production based on the language being spoken. Hertz is also focused on building a comprehensive model that integrates phonology and phonetics, which underpins the rules for knowledge-based speech synthesis developed at her company, Synfonica LLC.
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