Sylvain Groux

Role
Principal Ai Scientist at Cisco
Location
Santa Monica, CA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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About Sylvain Groux

A.I. Engineer, Speech Scientist, Cognitive Scientist and Musician. I build computational…

Experience

  1. Principal Ai Scientist

    Cisco

    Sep 2019 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

    Technical leadership, onboarding and mentoring - Spearheading Speech Synthesis efforts within Voicea team - Lead architect of python framework for training and evaluation of production-grade STT & TTS models (pytorch)- Speech Synthesis for speech to speech translation (WIP)- Integration of Voicea AI Speech technology to Webex Assistant (via acquisition)- Design, training and deployment of 2 new production grade ASR (Spanish & French)- Privacy preserving federated ASR (Patent)- Training and Evaluation Pipeline for Automatic Speech Recognition (Airflow)- Speaker diarization based on x-vector embeddings - Experiment design for evaluation of automatic meetings highlights - FST-based on-the-fly decoding with speech hint (Patent)- Data augmentation for robust acoustic modeling - Self-supervised learning for low-resource languages

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley

    Fulbright Scholar, Electrical Engineering Computer Science & Music

    2004 — 2005

  • The University of Queensland

    Fast.ai Practical Deep Learning for Coders , Artificial Intelligence

  • Stanford University

    Postdoc, Affective Science

    2013 — 2015

  • Lycée Clémenceau

    Baccalaureat, S

    1992 — 1995

  • Télécom Paris

    M.Sc. IRCAM ATIAM, Acoustics, Signal Processing, Computer Science

    2001 — 2002

  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    MA, Music Composition

    2005 — 2006

  • Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse

    Diplome, Flute, Music theory, Ensemble

    1985 — 1995

  • Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Ph.D., Cognitive Science / Computer Science

    2006 — 2010

  • King's College London

    Master of Science (M.Sc.) Double Degree with ESME, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

    2000 — 2001

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