Rupal Patel is a professor at Northeastern University, in Boston, United States in the area of speech science, human computer interaction and artificial intelligence.
This has concentrated on the acquisition and impairment of speech, specifically prosody, in healthy speakers and those with neuromotor disorders.
Her research group developed a computer system that allowed speech to be different for each individual based on their natural sound.
The pitch, loudness, breathiness and clarity of normal speech was generated by applying the computer system to a recording of a sample of the sound the individual was able to produce.
[3] She founded the spin-out company VOCALiD in 2014 and has continued development of the machine learning and speech blending used for generating the synthetic voices.