Matthew Aylett
Deputy Chief Scientist / Director of Voice Synthesis
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Dr Matthew Aylett
Director of Voice Synthesis
In both a commercial and academic role, Matthew has been working in speech synthesis for over two decades. He has published widely on the theme of putting character and emotion into speech synthesis and he has significant media engagement experience in the areas of voice cloning and expressive speech synthesis – appearing on national and international news from the BBC to Good Morning America. He has worked on high profile projects such as recreating JFK’s voice to give his last speech, and replacing the US film critic Roger Ebert’s voice using broadcast media resources. He has long been an advocate for improving and widening the speech synthesis available to the augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) community.
Assistive technology
From sensitive eye-gaze tracking to powerful brain-computer interfaces, we develop integrated solutions for independence, communication, and creation.
Disability advocacy
We campaign for government and healthcare infrastructure—and the options they provide to patients— to keep pace with technological and medical breakthroughs.
Redefining what it means to be human
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Assistive technology
From sensitive eye-gaze tracking to powerful brain-computer interfaces, we develop integrated solutions for independence, communication, and creation.
Disability advocacy
We campaign for government and healthcare infrastructure—and the options they provide to patients— to keep pace with technological and medical breakthroughs.