Carol Espy-Wilson

Dr. Espy-Wilson founded OmniSpeech with assistance from the Venture Accelerator Program at the University of Maryland. Dr. Espy-Wilson is also Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Speech Communication Lab, and a member of the Institute for Systems Research at UMD. A world-renowned engineer, Dr. Espy-Wilson conducts pioneering research integrating engineering, linguistics, and speech science. The idea for OmniSpeech originated from decades of research into the physiology of human speech. She has won numerous awards, including the National Institutes of Health Independent Scientist Award, University of Maryland's Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, and the National Science Foundation Minority Initiation Award.