Develop your speech technology with Voci’s ASR expert community

Wayne has strong expertise in the architecture, development, and operations of large-scale speech-driven data systems. Prior to joining Voci in 2016, he held senior positions at several Fortune 500 companies, including Comcast, IBM, Lucent, and AOL Time Warner. At Comcast, Wayne directed an enterprise-wide strategy for self-service solutions in support of customer service operations. He earned a B.S. degree in Joint Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Before Voci, John was co-founder of Quack.com (later acquired by AOL), responsible for the fusion and structuring of voice-searchable data and the development of text-to-speech architecture. He also held positions with Automated Speech Technologies, developing codecs that utilized vocabulary-independent speech recognition. He earned a B.S. degree in Physics and a Master’s degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, Canada; and a Ph.D. from the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Arthur Chan hacks speech recognizers and machine learning algorithms for a living. He also manages the Facebook Group, Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning (over 210,000 members).

Catherine is a Language Data Manager at Voci with experience in quality assurance and linguistics. She is responsible for managing transcription quality and coordinating the efforts of the linguistics team.

Haozheng researches and develops ASR technologies on Deep Belief Networks (DBN), Weighted Finite State Transducers (WFSTs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), and Custom Vocabulary.

John is a full-stack expert in software engineering and the architecting/building of top-performing, highly reliable systems. John has been with Voci from the beginning and has written and overseen the development of the highly-efficient speech recognition server, the V-Cloud service and their concise, easy-to-use APIs.

Kathy is a senior scientist working in research and development, whose responsibilities include the curation of scientific literature, prototype development (including using 3rd party software) / feasibility studies, and mathematics development / documentation. At Voci, she has primarily been focusing on voice biometrics and exploring speaker diarization technologies. She also has previous experience as a systems engineer in military defense, working in hardware, systems integration & test, system design, and diagnostic software, and also in academia as a teaching fellow in electrical engineering.

Kornel's current research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and acoustic signal processing, and include: audio segmentation, speech activity detection, prosody analysis, music detection, speaker diarization, gender and age estimation from speech, spoken language and accent classification, emotional state estimation from speech, turn-taking modeling, and voice biometrics.

Kris Gartley has been an IT professional for over 16 years and is a certified Project Manager at Voci. Kris is passionate about process and project development as well as diversity and inclusion in the Information Technology workspace. Her certifications include ITIL, Project + and leadership certificates from Cornell University and The Center for Creative Leadership.

Lynwood has over 30 years of software, electronics, and systems engineering experience, including the development of Electrical CAD tools, full-stack web applications, and embedded military electronics incorporating FPGAs. His responsibilities at Voci include software development, systems integration and language modeling, with a global focus on customer success.

As Voci's audio engineer, Rahul is responsible to drive higher audio quality from our customers. He also supports the customer success & language services teams with projects involving field tuning & language modelling.

Richard is a Devops Engineer at Voci, with over 18 years experience in a variety of engineering fields, including Processor Design, Government Contracting, Linux Administration, High Performance Computing (HPC), Robotics, and Medical Applications. At Voci, Richard is responsible for automating as much of the development process as possible from code check-in to deployment.

Vita is a skilled documentation manager with a decade of experience in technical communications, including project management documents, online and integrated help files, product specifications, quick start guides, installation guides, reports, release notes, and internal training documentation.

Xiaowen is a senior software engineer at Voci, where she is responsible for the research and development of several projects, such as language classification, gender classification, and emotion classification.