Primary Job Title CTO & Founder Primary Organization Speech Graphics
Location Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Michael is a linguist, speech scientist and software engineer who has been a pioneering expert in the field of speech animation since 1995. He helped develop the first-ever automated talking head and co-authored a book on the subject, before moving on to the challenge of highly realistic synthesis of facial dynamics. He founded a speech animation
research business in the US, and was granted a US patent on static and dynamic 3D facial reconstruction. He is also currently affiliated with the Centre for Speech Technology Research at the University of Edinburgh.
