Nina Glatthorn

Nina Glatthorn joined NovaSpeech as a Research Assistant in January 2008. At NovaSpeech she is assisting with research related to the hybrid synthesis grant funded by the NIH. Among other things, she analyzes speech data and experimental results, prepares speech data for NovaSpeech’s central relational speech database, and contributes to the development of synthesis algorithms. Prior to joining NovaSpeech full-time, Nina worked at the company part-time while completing her undergraduate degree at Cornell University.

Nina graduated from Cornell University in December 2007 with a B.A. in Linguistics; she also completed extensive coursework in biology. In her studies, she focused on acoustic analysis, pursuing upper-level courses in phonetics, bioacoustics, and speech synthesis (a course taught by Sue Hertz). Nina’s other interests include First Language Acquisition and the Evolution of Language.

While a student at Cornell, Nina worked as a research assistant on an NSF grant (#BCS 0236734) awarded to Drs. Amanda Miller, Christopher Collins, and Bonnie Sands for the purpose of research on the Khoisan African language N|u. Nina was responsible for transcribing and extracting specific tokens from N|u utterances. Also as an undergraduate, Nina helped organize and select abstracts for the first and second annual Cornell University Undergraduate Linguistics Colloquia.