Lyrebird offers a new generation of speech synthesis technologies for developers. It is the result of several months of research conducted at the MILA lab at University of Montréal.
Lyrebird is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2017 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Our tech speaks for itself. The founders listed are Alexandre de Brébisson (Founder/CEO), Kundan Kumar (Founder), Jose Sotelo (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 25, 2017).
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Lyrebird offers a new generation of speech synthesis technologies for developers. It is the result of several months of research conducted at the MILA lab at University of Montréal.
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We develop our own AI models for audio and video generation, editing, and understanding. They power Descript's video editing workflows.
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I started lyrebird.ai which pioneered voice cloning technology. Lyrebird.ai was sold to Descript, where I led AI for 5 years and shipped a bunch of AI features. Additionally, I have been serving on the board of Descript after lyrebird acquisition (pre-Series A, until now in 2024, post-series C).
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