Cong Zhang
Lecturer In Phonetics And Phonology at Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolCong Zhang is a speech scientist and Lecturer in Phonetics and Phonology at Newcastle University with a decade of experience researching speech prosody and its applications. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from Oxford and has blended academic research with industry practice—from postdoctoral roles in Nijmegen and Kent to building commercial voice and AI-music products at Rokid. His work spans corpus creation, prosodic annotation, TTS evaluation and improvement, and cross-linguistic phonetic analysis, and he has led large annotation efforts and audio-visual synchronisation projects. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he brings both theoretical depth and hands-on engineering sensibility to speech technology, including creating a virtual singer and launching an AI music platform for commercial partners.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Linguistics at University of OxfordMaster of Arts - MA, Linguistics, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, Linguistics, Distinction at Newcastle UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General, Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature, General at Beijing Foreign Studies University
Chinese, English, Dutch, French
Github Skills (5)
praat9
pythonic8
python6
linguistics3
nlp2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
congzhang365/Praat
Jun 2016 - Dec 2021
Contributions:82 commits, 46 pushes, 9 branches in 5 years 7 months
congzhang365/private-praat-scripts
Jul 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes in 11 months
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