Paul Taylor, based in London, England, United Kingdom, is the CEO and Co-founder at Thought Machine. He founded Thought Machine in 2014 to modernize banking technology.
Previous positions include:
- Manager and Technical Lead at Google from December 2010 to December 2013, where he led the text-to-speech team and integrated their software into various Google products.
- Chief Executive Officer at Phonetic Arts from September 2006 to May 2011, where he co-founded the company and developed speech technology for the computer games industry.
- Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge from October 2004 to October 2006, where he worked on projects in the Speech Group and authored publications.
- Chief Technical Officer at Rhetorical Systems from April 2000 to September 2004, where he commercialized research from Edinburgh University and produced high-quality text-to-speech systems.
Education includes academic positions at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities.