[citation needed] Starting when she was five years old, Calvin would try to teach her the math he was learning in school.
[3] She decided to continue her studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate school and obtained her MS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981.
[3] Her master's thesis was entitled, “Effects of Noise in Signal Reconstruction from its Fourier Transform Phase”.
A major focus of her research is to gain a better understanding of the relationship between articulation, acoustics and perception and to use this knowledge to develop effective speech technologies".
[1] Espy-Wilson is the founder of OmniSpeech, a start-up that offers technology to improve sound quality over cell phones and in hearing aids, among other devices.
[12][13] In 2008-2009, Espy-Wilson was named a Sargent-Faull Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, with a "focus on the noise robustness of a probabilistic landmark-based speech-recognition system.