News

2008

~KUSP radio interview (starts at around the half-way point)

~Swedish-language article on Baldi

~Czech-language article on Baldi

~UCSC Currents article: UCSC project aims to provide a virtual speech therapist via cell phone

~UCSC Currents article: Animated tutors help remedial readers, language learners, autistic children

~KION 46 story on virtual speech therapist
Watch video (2:07): Quicktime MOV (Depending on your connection, this could take a while to load)

~Fox News article: Virtual Teachers Outperform Real Ones

~ScienceDaily article: Animated Computer Tutors Help Remedial Readers, Language Learners, Autistic Children

2006

~Tech Museum Announces Annual Award Recipients

~UCSC Currents article: Psychology professor heeds parents' pleas for help

2005

~The Patricia C. Lindamood, M.S., CC-SLP Leadership Award For Clinical Excellence In Language and Reading. CSUMB Center for Reading Diagnosis and Instruction, California State University, Monterey Bay.

~Newsweek article: Baldi helping our children with Autism

2001

~Dr. Dean Edell's Medical Journal reports on Baldi's use in training deaf children. Watch the streaming video report from ABC TV.

~Primetime Thursday reports on a revolutionary 3D technology that may help deaf and autistic children as well as stroke victims. Watch a virtual Diane Sawyer for a preview.

1998

~Lessons from a talking head The Oregonian

~Did you see what I said? The Times

~Seeing is Hearing The Observer

~UCSC Currents article: UCSC psychologist teams up with Oregon school to help deaf children.

~Speech Recognition and Sensory Integration by Dominic W. Massaro and David G. Stork. In May-June 1998 American Scientist. Consider what goes through your mind when you attempt to identify an apples variety - Granny Smith, Golden Delicious, McIntosh or Fuji...

1997

~A new book by Dominic Massaro entitled, "Perceiving Talking Faces: From Speech Perception to a Behavioral Principle" (Bradford Books: Cognitive Psychology Series - The MIT Press) is a comprehensive resource for those interested in speechreading, pattern recognition, face-to-face communication, and the Fuzzy Logical Model of Perception (FLMP). The book presents converging evidence across several domains of perception that supports the FLMP as a universal law of perception. Included is a CD-ROM with many examples, stimuli from experiments, and Baldi (the computer generated talking head) in action.

1996

~UCSC Science Notes Summer 1996: Speech - A Sight to Behold.

1995

~Visualizing Speech Discover

~Baldi like second teacher in Tucker-Maxon classrooms OGI Matrix Technology Awards

1994

Screen Presence Metro Santa Cruz.