Shaunie Shammass

Shaunie is a phonetics expert with over 20 years of experience in the application of linguistics to the field of speech recognition. She was involved in the EU Sixth Framework consortiums, developing multilingual spoken and written linguistic resources for automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis and machine translation. She was the chief linguist at NSC, where she developed all linguistic resources for speech recognition in the telephony and mobile environments. She also brings E-Learning expertise in the field of English pronunciation teaching, having worked at DSP Solutions and Digispeech. Shaunie also has a rich pedagogical background in teacher-training and teaching English pronunciation, having taught at Bar-Ilan University and teaching colleges. Shaunie holds a PhD in Linguistics (with distinction) from the University of Alberta, Canada.