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Mountain View, CA-based Audience has Appointed Alexis Bernard as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
"Audience is a leading global provider of advanced voice and audio processors for mobile products. With our earSmart™ intelligent voice processors, we’re innovating “brain-like” technologies that allow mobile devices to deliver better voice quality for clear conversations in nearly any setting, higher accuracy and performance for speech recognition services, and enhanced audio for multimedia recording and playback, including mobile video, music, and more. New feature-rich devices, from smartphones to tablets, combined with the expansion of broadband networks, are creating a new array of mobile communications and audio capabilities. Whether video chatting with a friend, making hands-free speakerphone or VoIP calls, voice searching the internet, navigating by command, even capturing video, voice processing now matters more than ever for clear, high quality sound. Audience's breakthrough earSmart processor enables this new category of Advanced Voice. For a higher quality sound experience, it's a critical feature for the latest mobile devices. With earSmart Advanced Voice technology you can """"Hear and Be Heard"""" with clear conversations, just about anywhere. "
About the Person
Alexis Bernard is chief technology officer, responsible for Knowles’ technology strategy, roadmap, and partnerships. Alexis’s experience in technology development and corporate strategy will further strengthen Knowles’ global technology vision. Alexis has over 15 years of experience in executive and functional leadership roles with industry-leading technology companies such as Audience, Nokia, and Texas Instruments. Prior to Knowles, he was the chief technology officer at Audience and enlarged its strategic scope beyond audio to include motion processing, multi-sensory intelligence and low-power always-on capabilities. Prior to that role, Alexis was vice president of technology strategy and business development at Nokia. He was responsible, with the CTO, for corporate technology strategy, Nokia’s research portfolio management and operational excellence, technology marketing, open innovation, and mobile ecosystem partnerships. He also spent five years at McKinsey & Company in the firm`s telecom, media and technology practice in New York. He consulted senior management of large companies, government leaders or private equity clients in the telecom and semiconductor sectors on strategy, corporate finance, marketing and operations matters. Alexis began his career as a researcher in speech coding and recognition, including five years in the DSP research and development center of Texas Instruments in Dallas. Alexis is an inventor on multiple patents and author of over 25 publications in the field of digital communications and speech technology. He holds an MSEE from the University of Louvain in Belgium, a PhD electrical engineering from UCLA. Alexis lives in Mountain View, California with his wife and son and enjoys the many outdoor activities of the San Francisco bay area.
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