Janet Cahn, Ph.D., is a senior voice user interface designer at Bose, where she designs multilingual voice user interfaces for entertainment systems. Prior to working at Bose, she worked in industrial labs at Motorola, Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard on speech, natural language, multimodal and wearable technologies. At the MIT Media Laboratory, she developed software for generating expressive synthesized speech. It has been profiled in the printed media, including the New York Times and the MIT Technology Review, and has been incorporated into commercial prototypes of robots and animated characters. Her interactive demo of expressive synthesized speech was exhibited at the First Artificial Intelligence-Based Arts Exhibition, at AAAI in 1992, and later at the Boston Computer Museum for many years. Cahn has published 16 articles in academic and industrial publications, and is a reviewer for journals and conferences in speech and language technology. She has been an invited speaker and panel member at academic and professional organizations internationally, and has consulted on Web and speech technology for the Lighthouse Project in Thailand. Cahn received her doctorate in media arts and sciences and master's degree in visual studies from the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her bachelor's degree in computer science from Mills College. She is member of ACM/SIGCHI.