Research engineer at Sesame, working on bringing computers to life through personality, voice, and memory. Previously: - Leading Stability AI's speech research, working on multi-capability large-scale text-to-speech and speech-to-speech translation models. - Senior researcher at Rockstar Games, responsible for leading Rockstar’s audio and speech ML/AI research. - Member of the University of Edinburgh's speech technology research group focusing on language model architectures for text-to-speech and self-supervised representation learning. - Prior wealth of experience in interactive sound design, speech processing, acoustics, spatial audio, mixing and recording, gained while working as a sound designer in games, TV and film.