James Salsman is a statistician and software engineer with over 25 years of speech, signal processing, C, Python, Perl, Javascript, R, SQL, Tcl/Tk, WebRTC, and related experience. He studied computer science and mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University. Salsman’s contributions to open source software include substantial improvements to the phase vocoder algorithm efficiency, upgrades to TCL and Android, and work to patch and extend Mediawiki. He is currently working on speech recognition for pronunciation evaluation, helping people learn to speak and read well.

Hack the Future (volunteer mentor)

Google Summer of Code (volunteer mentor)