Jean-philippe Robichaud
Principal Speech Scientist at Rev
Mercier, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJean-philippe Robichaud is a Senior Speech Scientist with 16 years of experience building and deploying large-scale ASR and NLU systems across industry leaders like Rev, Microsoft, and Nuance. He combines applied research with production engineering to push speech recognition performance and ship bleeding-edge models into real-world products, including work on DragonGO and directory-assistance applications. Trained as an engineering physicist at École Polytechnique de Montréal, he excels at rapid prototyping and tuning of speech systems, from vXML applications to large language model components. Based in Mercier, Quebec, he’s known for turning complex acoustic and language research into practical, scalable solutions that measurably improve accuracy in production.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Engineering Physics, BS Engineering Physics at Polytechnique Montréal
English, French
Github Skills (167)
text-to-speech10
automatic-speech-recognition10
speech10
cpp10
machine-translation10
whisper10
conformer10
shell10
active-learning10
fst10
facebook-messenger10
speech-synthesis10
reinforcement-learning10
cuda10
diarization10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
revdotcom/paper_accurate_fast_cheap
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Repository for code behind the Interspeech 2025 paper : Accurate, fast, cheap: Choose three. Replacing Multi-Head-Attention with Bidirectional Recurrent Attention for Long-Form ASR
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push in 2 months
asrcode-behindmultihead-attention
jprobichaud/OrientationConscience
Nov 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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