Dr. Andre Coy is a Senior Lecturer in Physics and the Associate Dean for External Engagement in the Faculty of Science and Technology, UWI, Mona. He is a computer scientist and a physicist having a B.Sc. in electronics and mathematics and a M.Sc. in Climate Physics - both from The UWI. His Ph.D. in Computer Science is from the University of Sheffield where he helped develop a portable device employing speech recognition and text-to-speech technology to aid communication in individuals with speech impairment. His area of specialisation is in Speech and Language Technology and Signal Processing and he seeks to better understand human speech to develop and improve automatic speech recognition in computers and assist in language learning education and education of person with hearing and speech disabilities.