Dr. Caroline Henton

Dr. Caroline Henton received both her M.Phil. in General Linguistics and her Doctorate in Acoustic Phonetics from the University of Oxford.

After an academic career in the UK and California, she joined Apple Computer Inc. in Cupertino to produce the high quality synthetic speech available on Apple platforms. She later served as Director of Language Development for Voice Processing Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Director of Linguistic Development for the DECtalk speech synthesizer produced by Digital Equipment Corp.

Her consulting work has included speech synthesis, linguistics, localization, and voice user interface design for Sun Microsystems, Claris, PulsePoint, Lexicon Naming, Interval Research, Apple Computer, General Magic, and Digital Equipment Corporation. From 1998 to 2000 she was Vice President for Strategic Technology at Fonix Corporation.

Dr. Henton is also the British English voice talent for PulsePoint Communications and Centigram Communications, and is the author of more than 45 technical and research publications. In June 2000 she joined the Speech and Language Development team at Tellme Networks, with responsibilities covering multilingual text-to-speech synthesis research and development, natural language research, and integration of speech input-output with other human-computer interaction modalities.