Principal IC building an AI team and roadmap in the Creative Audio organization, focused on new [gen]AI products and experiences.

Founder and manager of FAIR’s AI Voice & Audio Explorations, Meta’s first AI audio prototyping team focused on using breakthroughs in generative AI music, voice, and sound to power innovative, 0-1 product experiences.

Senior IC AI voice matter expert building and shipping next-generation AI voices.

TTS voice design and development for Product and Research. -Developed and shipped six US English Assistant Voices (May '18)-Co-developed training data footprint and data capture best practices optimized for neural net synthesis (Wavenet) and for multilingual scale. -Designed new TTS tuning/content generation tools-Collaborated with TTS, DeepMind, and Tacotron research teams, focusing on greater expressivity (prosody modeling, voice cloning, contextual adaptation).

(Google acquihire) AI voice startup focused on personalized/cloned text-to-speech voices for any application or technology. Voice is the new Text.

- Senior creative lead working on text-to-speech (TTS) voice design and product development. Close collaboration with speech scientists, linguists, engineers, and designers to define the speech vision for Nuance enterprise, mobile, and automotive products. Shipped well-known mobile speech synthesis products for Nuance customers. - Designed and co developed innovative algorithmic music applications, in support of next-generation web and mobile audio news experiences. - Links below featuring some of the work our team undertook during our time at Nuance, including an article and video piece by The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/17/4596374/machine-language-how-siri-found-its-voice

Advanced speech design for next-generation TTS on a cross-functional team situated at the intersection of Product and R&D and working across all lines of company business and with an extensive network of voice customers including:-BMW-US Airways-Bank of America-USAASonic branding design, development, and implementation for company applications and platforms, including:- Dragon Mobile Assistant (DMA)- Nuance Nina Virtual Assistant- Dragon Go!

Audio branding + design, casting, dialog design, multilingual voice direction and project management for mobile, web, console, and other media channels.

Turnkey sound & earcon design, dialog design, production, and localization for 3P brand-name clients in the toy, video game, and educational platform markets, including Mattel, Fisher-Price, Hasbro, VTech, and Leapfrog. Localization for international products distributed in North America, Latin America, and Europe.

Music composition and asset generation for a music startup focused on desktop music performance and remixing tools (Mixman was acquired by Beatnik in 2000). Worked with artists, producers and company leaders to align partnership opportunities with record labels and musicians to remix and publish their work using Mixman’s proprietary music tools and platform. Created artist remixes and composed original music and stems for the Mixman/Beatnik music platform.