Patrick Hegde has been working as a Research Associate at NovaSpeech LLC since September 2006, after obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in Linguistics and History with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University. At NovaSpeech, Patrick assists with all aspects of the research related to our current hybrid synthesis project. He administers our central relational speech database, develops software to support acoustic and linguistic analysis, and participates in synthesis rule development. Patrick also contributes to other NovaSpeech activities, including technical documentation and public relations.