Paul is a Principal Investigator for a project called Search Inside the Music here at Sun Labs where he explores new ways to help people find highly relevant music, even as music collections get very large.
Paul joined Sun Labs in 2000 where he worked in the Lab's Speech Application Group, contributing to FreeTTS, a speech synthesizer written in the Java programming language as well as serving as the software architect for Sphinx-4, a speech recognition system written in the Java programming language.
Prior to joining Sun, Paul developed real-time, embedded software for a wide range of companies and industries.
Paul has served on a number of standards committees including the W3C Voice Browser working group, the Java Community Process JSR-113 working on the next version of the Java Speech API, the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL), and the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange (MIREX).
Paul authors Duke Listens! - a blog about Music, Speech and the Java platform.
