About Paul Taylor

Paul Taylor founded Thought Machine in 2014 because he wanted to bring modern software technology to banking. He strongly felt something needed to be done about the way most banking systems were so cumbersome and awkward, not to mention deeply frustrating and practically useless for millions of end users. He is a serial entrepreneur, with expertise in speech, natural language, and machine learning. From 2010-2013 he led the text-to-speech team at Google, developing speech output technology for Google Now, driving directions in Google Maps, and accessibility. If you hear any Google product speak, that's the system his team built. He joined Google upon the acquisition of Phonetic Arts, a company he co-founded and was CEO of. They developed text-to-speech and other speech technology for the computer games industry. Prior to that he was co-founder and CTO of Rhetorical Systems, which was acquired by Nuance in 2004. Paul Taylor has been an academic at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities. At Edinburgh he was director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research.