Murray, Iain

I am now retired from teaching, but still supervise occasional Honours and Masters projects.

My main research interests are:

• simulation of vocal emotion in synthetic speech
• the application of synthetic speech systems within voice output communication aids
• the work of Sir Barnes Wallis

My research was previously conducted within the Human-Centred Computing research group within Computing in the School of Science & Engineering (now the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Business).

After his secondary education in Dunfermline, Dr Iain Murray attended the University of Dundee in 1982 where he gained an undergraduate degree in electronics and a postgraduate research degree on the subject of speech synthesis. He has been a lecturer in Computing there since 1991, still with an interest in speech synthesis and communication technology. He was a member of the British Computer Society's academic accreditation team for over 10 years.

He has been interested in the work of Sir Barnes Wallis for many years, and his book “Bouncing-Bomb Man: the Science of Sir Barnes Wallis” was published in 2009; he is also the author of the Haynes technical manuals on the Dam Busters (2011) and Vickers Wellington (2012), and is a trustee of the Barnes Wallis Foundation.