Rupal Patel CEO of VocaliD Discusses Customized Synthetic Voices - Voicebot Podcast Ep 102

Rupal Patel is the founder and CEO of VocaliD. She founded the
company in 2014 to provide voice prostheses for people that
cannot speak in their own voices. The company continues with that
work today and has expanded into customized voices for brands
looking for a distinctive sound in their efforts around voice
assistants.


VocaliD was a Mass Challenge finalist in 2014 where it
participated in the accelerator program. Patel has also been a
professor at Northeastern University for the past 16 years with
joint appointments in the departments of health science and
computer science. She also holds an affiliate faculty position at
Harvard and MIT for the Division of Health Science and Technology
but focuses her attention today on VocaliD. Early in her career
while studying for her doctorate, Rupal also spent time as a
speech pathologist. She earned a Ph.D. in Speech Language
Pathology from the University of Toronto and an undergraduate
degree in Neuropsychology from the University of Calgary. Patel
completed her post-doc work at MIT.