Alexandre de Brébisson's guest appearances

Alexandre de Brébisson

Point of No Return podcast

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Alex Manea

Ian Jeffrey

Sam Kawtharani

Laurent Simon

Frederic Bastien

Deborah Kilpatrick

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On this week’s show, we spoke with Alexandre de Brébisson, Founder @ Lyrebird.ai and PhD student at MILA. Alexandre is one of the founders of lyrebird.ai, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, RedPoint Ventures and YCombinator (S17). He is also a fourth-year PhD student at the MILA lab in Montréal under the joint supervision of Professors Pascal Vincent and Yoshua Bengio (my interest in neural nets started back in 2008 when he coded LeNet-5 in Maple (!)). Before his PhD, he studied at Imperial College under the supervisions of Professors Murray Shanahan, Giovanni Montana and Mauricio Barahona.   On the show, we spoke about:  How he started building websites at a young age His interest in speech synthesis and the ethical impact Optimization speeds with natural language processing Going viral around the world    Alexandre is a brilliant and super humble entrepreneur. The technology he is developing is literally stuff from science fiction. I hope that you enjoy the conversation!   Let us know what you think. What types of guests would like to see on the show? What topics interest you the most? Send me your thoughts at nectar@thepnr.com   Subscribe |  iTunes |  Google Play |Spotify |  YouTube | Stitcher | Breaker

On this week’s show, we spoke with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/adbrebs/?locale=en_US" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alexandre de Brébisson</a>, Founder @ <a href="https://www.descript.com/lyrebird-ai?source=lyrebird" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lyrebird.ai</a> and PhD student at <a href="https://mila.quebec/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MILA</a>. Alexandre is one of the founders of <a href="http://lyrebird.ai" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lyrebird.ai</a>, a startup backed by Andreessen Horowitz, RedPoint Ventures and YCombinator (S17). He is also a fourth-year PhD student at the MILA lab in Montréal under the joint supervision of Professors Pascal Vincent and Yoshua Bengio (my interest in neural nets started back in 2008 when he coded LeNet-5 in Maple (!)). Before his PhD, he studied at Imperial College under the supervisions of Professors Murray Shanahan, Giovanni Montana and Mauricio Barahona. On the show, we spoke about: <ul> <li>How he started building websites at a young age</li> <li>His interest in speech synthesis and the ethical impact</li> <li>Optimization speeds with natural language processing</li> <li>Going viral around the world</li> </ul> Alexandre is a brilliant and super humble entrepreneur. The technology he is developing is literally stuff from science fiction. I hope that you enjoy the conversation! Let us know what you think. What types of guests would like to see on the show? What topics interest you the most? Send me your thoughts at <a href="mailto:nectar@thepnr.com">nectar@thepnr.com</a> Subscribe | <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/point-of-no-return-podcast/id1160536476?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> iTunes</a> | <a href="https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iefjqhwcdz5o6v6flvj7bu7o5o4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Google Play</a> |<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/4c48AlN1hJbQmN7FHPN8vJ?si=nSBgZjtbTV-jANsaz-7ilQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf0gXyZXPdWcHEtYEiG0pYw?view_as=subscriber" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> YouTube</a> | <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=185161&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a> | <a href="https://www.breaker.audio/point-of-no-return-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Breaker</a>

Solving speech with Alexandre de Brébisson, Founder @ Lyrebird.ai