Jeff Adams

Jeff Adams has a vast and extensive work experience in the field of speech and language technology. Jeff started their career as a Language Modeling R&D Manager at Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products and continued to work as an LM Manager at Lernout & Hauspie. Jeff then joined ScanSoft, Inc. as a Director in LM R&D, followed by a role as Director of Language Modeling R&D at Nuance. At Nuance, they contributed to significant accuracy improvements in Dragon NaturallySpeaking versions and played a key role in developing medical dictation products.

Jeff later joined Yap, Inc. as VP of Research, where they built a speech research team and developed cloud-based speech recognition technology. After Yap, they joined Amazon as a Senior Manager and served as the founding manager of the Alexa speech group. Jeff led efforts to build speech and language capabilities in various Amazon products, including Alexa, Fire TV, Dash, and the Amazon Mobile application.

In 2014, Jeff founded Cobalt Speech & Language, a technology consulting company specializing in cognitive computing, with a focus on speech and language technology. Jeff led the company as CEO and worked with companies to improve their speech and language technology using their team of talented scientists.

In 2016, Jeff founded Canary Speech and served as their Chief Speech Officer. Jeff then co-founded Voicescript in 2020 and took on the role of Co-founder and Chief Speech Officer. Additionally, in 2017, Jeff co-founded OmniBot.ai, where they served as the Co-founder and Chief Scientist. OmniBot is a Voice and Conversational AI platform solutions provider, headquartered in Germany.

Overall, Jeff Adams has a diverse background in leading and contributing to the development of speech and language technology in various companies and has significant expertise in the field.

Jeff Adams attended Brigham Young University from 1978 to 1984, where they received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics. In 1988, they briefly studied Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, but did not obtain a degree. In 1990, they pursued further education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, earning a Master of Arts degree in Mathematics. From 1992 to 1995, they studied Mathematics at the University of Oregon, although it is not specified whether they obtained a degree during this time.