Steve Young (software engineer)
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| Born | Stephen John Young 1951 (age 73–74) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
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| Thesis | Speech synthesis from concept with applications to speech output from systems (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Frank Fallside |
| Website | mi |
Stephen John Young (born 1951) is a British researcher, Professor of Information Engineering at the University of Cambridge and an entrepreneur. He is one of the pioneers of automated speech recognition and statistical spoken dialogue systems. He served as the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge from 2009 to 2015, responsible for planning and resources. From 2015 to 2019, he held a joint appointment between his professorship at Cambridge and Apple, where he was a senior member of the Siri development team.