Leading Lyrebird's data collection efforts, including: scriptwriting, casting, organising and engineering recording sessions. Additional responsibilities in media relations, copywriting/editing, and recruitment.
Leading a project to produce a Quebecois text-to-speech voice. Responsibilities included: planning in conjunction with the Edinburgh team, hiring and working with a native Quebecois linguist, organising and overseeing studio recording sessions, and data delivery.
QA testing, improving text-processing systems, improving lexicons, scriptwriting, casting voice artists, engineering studio recording sessions, project managing custom voice/language creation projects with large clients.
Improving the accuracy of automatically-generated phonetic transcriptions.
Preparing materials for and helping to run a short professional development course for specialist instructors of pupils with dyslexia.