Alyson Pace

CEO

Voiceitt

United States

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About me

Alyson Pace is a dedicated entrepreneur turned corporate executive leader. Ms. Pace's career is marked by her passion for disruptive technologies, and her capabilities to bring complex technological products to market, from ideation to scale, and to build early-stage companies from startups to successful enterprises.

Before her second tour at Cisco in 2018, Alyson was an early executive at Voicea, a voice AI tech startup, and a leader at Webex, both with successful acquisitions. Her leadership has emphasized exceptional user experience and technical and GTM partnerships, including sales or channel enablement and OEM commercial deals, which led to the company's acquisition by Cisco.

At Cisco, Ms. Pace led the M&A and integration practice for the company's Collaboration business unit to accelerate time to value and provide world-class employee experience. As part of Corporate Development at Cisco Investments, she managed multiple practices for the acceleration and scaling of Cisco portfolio startups' businesses, accelerating time-to-market and revenue.

My organisation

Voiceitt was founded with the mission to apply its machine learning and speech recognition technologies to help people with speech disabilities resulting from stroke, degenerative disease, or developmental disorders live more connected, independent lives. Its proprietary automatic speech recognition (ASR) makes voice AI accessible — enabling people with speech impairments to interact with mainstream voice technologies, communicate by voice, and be understood.

Voiceitt’s goal is to increase accessibility for people with non-standard speech, improving their access to education, employment, healthcare, and entertainment. With Voiceitt, people suffering from speech disabilities can improve their quality of life, participate in the world around them, and contribute to a fairer, more productive society.

Voiceitt has developed a unique, proprietary voice AI technology for people with non-standard speech. Voiceitt translates dysarthric speech into clear, understandable speech in real-time. Through a customizable API, Voiceitt integrates with software like voice assistants, telehealth platforms, video conferencing, and smart devices to help people communicate and interact independently, thus increasing connection, independence, and quality of life.

Voiceitt is built on patented deep learning AI techniques, including a personalized pattern classification technology for each user. Unlike standard speech recognition, Voiceitt is speaker-dependent, adapting to the users’ unique speech patterns over time in the same way their relatives and friends adapt to them.

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Wednesday, 21 February 2024

12:00 - 13:30

Forum on Artificial Intelligence and disability inclusion

Format:Live stream
Track:
Location: M2
  • Assistive technologies
  • ICT innovations
  • English captions | International Sign
  • Audiodescription

In this Forum, exciting new AI-based solutions will be presented, as well as methods discussed, which seek to ensure that disability inclusion in reflected in AI development.