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{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
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'''Kevin Lenzo''' (born 1967) is an American computer scientist.<ref>[http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1660.html IT Conversations: Kevin Lenzo - Text to Speech: Make It Talk], recorded 2006-01-25</ref> He wrote the initial [[infobot]], founded [[The Perl Foundation]] (and was its chairman until 2007<ref>[http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_foundation_board_of_directors_election_new_people_new_positions Perl Foundation: Perl Foundation Board of Directors election, new people, new positions], accessed 2010-07-10</ref>) and the [[Yet Another Perl Conference]]s (YAPC).,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html |title=The Timeline of Perl and its Culture}}</ref> released [[CMU Sphinx]] into [[Open-source license|Open source]], founded Cepstral LLC, and has been a major contributor to the [[Festival Speech Synthesis System]], FestVox, and Flite.  His voice is the basis for a number of [[synthetic voice]]s, including [[FreeTTS]], [[Festival Speech Synthesis System#Flite|Flite]], and the cmu_us_kal_diphone Festival voice.  He has also contributed [[Perl]] modules to [[CPAN]]. Kevin was also a founding member of the 1980s funk band "Leftover Funk" and the "Petty Punkasses" in 1998.
==See also==
* [[YAPC]], the Yet Another Perl Conferences, founded by Kevin Lenzo
* [[The Perl Foundation]], co-founded with Kurt DeMaagd
* [[Festival Speech Synthesis System#Flite|Flite]], [[Festival Speech Synthesis System]] and in particular kal_diphone (Kevin A Lenzo) made from his voice, and FestVox for building [[synthetic voices]]
* The [[Infobot]], an [[Internet Relay Chat]] [[Software agent|agent]]
* [[CMU Sphinx]] which he released into Open Source
* [[FreeTTS]], a Java port of Flite
* The [[Perl]] Programming Language
* The [[White Camel]] Awards
* [[CPAN]], the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
* [[Cepstral LLC]]
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