by SoundMotives | Feb 17, 2020 | audio, inspiration, podcast, studio blog, talks, Uncategorised, voice
I’m very excited to have been asked to be part of the We Are Europe activities for 2020 alongside a number of people whose work I really admire. We Are Europe, the European cooperation project that was launched in 2015 is embarking a new 3-year cycle...
by SoundMotives | Nov 1, 2019 | audio, bbc, editorial, our work, persona, studio blog, voice
In October I began working with the team at BBC Voice & AI, helping them with their forthcoming beeb voice assistant. It’s been fascinating contributing to this process of shaping the assistant’s persona, as the team develop their remarkably ambitious...
by SoundMotives | Mar 10, 2019 | audio, guardian, our work, studio blog, voice
We launched our second project at The Guardian Voice Lab this week! It’s a flash briefing that combined human and synthetic voice, which was a lot of fun work on. Working with SSML was a new experience for me, and although working in code was daunting initially,...
by SoundMotives | Mar 9, 2019 | audio, guardian, our work, studio blog, voice
One of our responsibilities on The Voice Lab has been to write weekly blog posts about our progress. As Editorial Lead within the team, my posts have approached the meeting point that exists in voice between software developers and editorial/content creators, from the...
by SoundMotives | Jan 8, 2019 | audio, guardian, our work, studio blog, voice
As previously discussed in an early blog post, in late October I began a 6 month contract at The Guardian’s Voice Lab, fulfilling the role of editorial lead/audio producer within a 4-person software-focused team (alongside a product lead, a programmer and an UX...
by SoundMotives | Nov 19, 2018 | audio, our work, studio blog, voice
At the end of October I was offered a role working on a new initiative from The Guardian developing audio content for Google’s Home smart speaker and Google Assistant. Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce the launch of Guardian Voice Lab – an...
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