Kevin Lenzo is an American computer scientist. He wrote the initial infobot

Infobot

Infobot is a Perl IRC bot, first written in 1995 by Kevin Lenzo. The bot's main goal was to remember URLs and associate them with a descriptive name, so whenever someone needed a specific URL they could ask the bot...

, founded The Perl Foundation

The Perl Foundation

The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code...

 (and was its chairman until 2007) and the Yet Another Perl Conference

Yet Another Perl Conference

Yet Another Perl Conference, usually given as the abbreviation YAPC, is a series of conferences discussing the Perl computer programming language, usually organised under the auspices of The Perl Foundation and Yet Another Society, a "non-profit corporation for the advancement of collaborative...

s (YAPC), released CMU Sphinx

CMU Sphinx

CMU Sphinx, also called Sphinx in short, is the general term to describe a group of speech recognition systems developed at Carnegie Mellon University...

 into Open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

, founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the Festival Speech Synthesis System

Festival Speech Synthesis System

Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black at at the University of Edinburgh. Substantial contributions have also been provided by Carnegie Mellon University and other sites...

, FestVox, and Flite. His voice is the basis for a number of synthetic voices, including FreeTTS

FreeTTS

FreeTTS is an open source speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java programming language. It is based upon Flite. FreeTTS is an implementation of Sun's Java Speech API.FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers...

, Flite

Flite

Flite may mean:* A small run-time speech synthesis engine used by Festival Speech Synthesis System* A new name for Widgetbox...

, and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice. He has also contributed Perl

Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...

 modules to CPAN

CPAN

CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of nearly 100,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations...

.

See also

• YAPC, the Yet Another Perl Conferences, founded by Kevin Lenzo
• The Perl Foundation
  The Perl Foundation
  The Perl Foundation is dedicated to the advancement of the Perl programming language through open discussion, collaboration, design, and code...
  
  , co-founded with Kurt DeMaagd
• Flite
  Flite
  Flite may mean:* A small run-time speech synthesis engine used by Festival Speech Synthesis System* A new name for Widgetbox...
  
  , Festival Speech Synthesis System
  Festival Speech Synthesis System
  Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system originally developed by Alan W. Black at at the University of Edinburgh. Substantial contributions have also been provided by Carnegie Mellon University and other sites...
  
   and in particular kal_diphone (Kevin A Lenzo) made from his voice, and FestVox for building synthetic voices
• The Infobot
  Infobot
  Infobot is a Perl IRC bot, first written in 1995 by Kevin Lenzo. The bot's main goal was to remember URLs and associate them with a descriptive name, so whenever someone needed a specific URL they could ask the bot...
  
  , an Internet Relay Chat
  Internet Relay Chat
  Internet Relay Chat is a protocol for real-time Internet text messaging or synchronous conferencing. It is mainly designed for group communication in discussion forums, called channels, but also allows one-to-one communication via private message as well as chat and data transfer, including file...
  
   agent
  Software agent
  In computer science, a software agent is a piece of software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency, which derives from the Latin agere : an agreement to act on one's behalf...
  
  
• CMU Sphinx
  CMU Sphinx
  CMU Sphinx, also called Sphinx in short, is the general term to describe a group of speech recognition systems developed at Carnegie Mellon University...
  
   which he released into Open Source
• FreeTTS
  FreeTTS
  FreeTTS is an open source speech synthesis system written entirely in the Java programming language. It is based upon Flite. FreeTTS is an implementation of Sun's Java Speech API.FreeTTS supports end-of-speech markers...
  
  , a Java port of Flite
• The Perl
  Perl
  Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
  
   Programming Language
• The White Camel Awards
• CPAN
  CPAN
  CPAN, the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, is an archive of nearly 100,000 modules of software written in Perl, as well as documentation for it. It has a presence on the World Wide Web at and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations...
  
  , the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
• Cepstral LLC
  Cepstral LLC
  Cepstral is a provider of speech synthesis technology and services. It was founded by leading scientists from Carnegie Mellon University including computer scientists Kevin Lenzo and Alan W. Black, in June 2000. It is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...