Ivan Bokarev Is Building a Voice You Don’t Speak
The Voyage Interfaces CTO is developing a silent-speech system by working backward from a central question: what kind of interface can keep pace with increasingly capable computers?
Two years ago, Ivan Bokarev was couch-surfing through Europe and eating leftovers scavenged from a KFC. He spent his last $200 on a flight to the United Kingdom to meet a possible collaborator. Today the company he helped start is backed by Draper Associates and is building a device that lets people speak to computers without making a sound.
The direction didn't start with silent speech, however. It started years earlier, sideways.
"I started playing around with machine learning quite early, after I gave up my dream of becoming an esports player," he says. One day, riding a train, he noticed a stranger using Google Colab and struck up a conversation.
The stranger, an ex-lawyer working in artificial intelligence, introduced him a week...
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