David M Howard holds a Personal Chair in Music Technology in the
Department of Electronics, University of York, UK. His main research
interests are the analysis and synthesis of singing, music and speech
particularly with respect to finding out more about naturalness in sound
reproduction, pitch shift in a cappella singing, the effect of voice
training and making use of analyses informed by knowledge of the hearing
system.
David is a past president of the British Voice Association, a past Vice-President and Trustee of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology, Editor-in-Chief of Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology and he serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Voice, Organised Sound and Forensic Linguistics. Out of work David plays the organ at St. Luke's Church in York, conducts the Vale of York Voice who sing evensong once a month in York Minster and is in the process of starting an ensemble a cappella choir.