Eric Hunter, Investigator

Eric Hunter completed his training in the area of speech science under the direction of Dr. Ingo Titze via the National Research Service Award traineeship and received his doctorate from the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology at The University of Iowa; his dissertation topic used continuum mechanics to model vocal fold posturing. Originally from a small farming community in southern Idaho, Dr. Hunter earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University in physics and mathematics with an emphasis in acoustics and vibration. His master's thesis, which focused on designing and testing visual aides for the deaf, http://www.geocities.com/ericsresearch/TriDesign.html, shifted his interest from musical acoustics to speech acoustics.

He is on the board of editors of the International Journal of Research in Choral Singing and a member of the American Society of Biomechanics and the Acoustical Society of America. He is the principal investigator for an NIH/NIDCD grant entitled, "A Computational Tool for Simulation of Phonosurgical Procedures." He is married to Laura Hunter and has three children.

Contact at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts
EHunter@dcpa.org | 303-446-4839

Research Interests: signal processing, biomechanics of speech articulators (specifically the larynx and laryngeal muscle mechanics), vibrational and posturing models of the vocal system, muscle mechanics and muscle models, and biomechanical properties of tissues. Broader academic interests include: recording techniques, speech perception, musical acoustics, integrated circuit processes creation, modeling integrated circuits, and machine recognition of speech.

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