Chris Baume
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Baume is an audio technology founder and research engineer with 14+ years at the forefront of immersive and personalised sound, most recently co-leading the BBC’s audio research team and founding Sonic Baume to commercialise innovative audio products. He has a PhD from the University of Surrey and a track record delivering AI-assisted production tools, object-based audio projects (including the world’s first object-based radio drama), and large collaborative research programmes worth tens of millions. Chris combines deep technical skills in machine learning and audio engineering with practical production experience, having shipped transcript-based editing tools and mood-mapping systems trained on large music corpora. He founded the Sounds Amazing conference and has repeatedly bridged academia, industry and standards bodies to move prototypes into real-world listening experiences. An under-the-radar strength is his ability to scale research impact through partnerships and student sponsorship, having stewarded over thirty students and numerous cross-sector projects.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electronic Engineering with Music Technology Systems at University of YorkLeaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate at St Andrew's College, DublinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electronic Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electronic Engineering at University of Surrey
Github Skills (78)
speech10
transcript10
music10
react-component9
transcription9
audio9
feature-extraction9
mel9
react8
kaldi8
super-resolution8
algorithms8
speech-processing7
markdown7
ai7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chrisbaume/thisAmericanLifeTranscripts
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
A small Node.js application to download transcripts of This American Life's 500+ episodes and parse them into CSV or JSON files.
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 years 5 months
csvnodejs-application
chrisbaume/overtyper
Sep 2018 - Nov 2019
Experiment in automatic insertion of timed transcript corrections
Contributions:11 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
insertiontimedcorrectionstranscript
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