Meet the crew teaching machines to talk

We’re the misfits who heard one robotic voice too many and said, “Yeah, we can fix that.” You’re welcome.

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David Lee

Conversation Designer

Writes the flows our voices follow when a call goes sideways, and makes sure they still sound polite at minute twelve.

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Emma Carter

Linguist

Owns pronunciation across forty languages and keeps a growing list of brand names that should never have been invented.

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Isaac Turner

Platform Engineer

Keeps the models warm and the latency graphs flat. Gets genuinely upset when first audio slips past 200 milliseconds.

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Jordan Wells

Evaluation Lead

Built the golden sets that every release is checked against, and still listens to a stack of clips every Friday.

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Juliet Ramos

Voice Director

Casts and directs the voice actors behind our library, then helps customers pick the one that sounds like their brand.

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Leila Fernandez

Trust and Safety Lead

Designed spoken consent checks and watermarking for Voice Lab. Says no to more cloning requests than anyone here.

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Marco Bianchi

Head of Speech Research

Leads the team training our voice models, with a soft spot for prosody and a hard line on anything that sounds robotic.

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Maya Lombardi

Voice Content Writer

Writes the scripts in our demos and docs, and teaches customers how to write for the ear instead of the eye.

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Oliver Grant

Languages Lead

Brings every new language to launch with native listeners, and has strong opinions about where a pause belongs.

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Samuel Ortiz

Developer Advocate

Writes the quickstarts, answers the forum at odd hours and can get a streamed sentence playing in under ten minutes.