Sylvain Chevalier
Senior Director, Technical Program Management at SoundHound AI
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolSylvain Chevalier is a senior technical program management leader with 13+ years steering speech and voice technology programs and scaling cross-functional teams, now leading TPM efforts at SoundHound AI from Paris. He combines deep research roots—a PhD in speech and handwriting recognition—with hands-on engineering experience from founding a startup (Ispikit) to directing speech technology teams in Shanghai. Sylvain has progressed from senior engineer to senior director, delivering product-grade speech systems and programs that bridge R&D and commercial deployment. He remains technically active in open-source work, notably initializing a PocketSphinx WebAssembly integration that demonstrates his focus on bringing speech recognition into web environments. Comfortable operating across cultures and geographies, he pairs technical depth with program-level execution to move complex voice projects from prototype to production. Colleagues value his blend of academic rigor, entrepreneurial grit, and pragmatic delivery.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Preparatory Classes MPSI MP, Preparatory Classes MPSI MP at Lycée Saint LouisExchange Student, Exchange Student at National University of SingaporePhD Speech and Handwriting Recognition, PhD Speech and Handwriting Recognition at Université Paris CitéMSc Electrical Engineering, MSc Electrical Engineering at Grenoble INP - Ense3Master's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at Grenoble INP - UGA
English, French, Chinese, German
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Github Skills (13)
speech-recognition10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
build-system9
webassembly9
javascript9
cmake9
ios6
webworker6
android6
cordova6
coreaudio6
gstreamer6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js
Jun 2013 - Apr 2020
Speech recognition in JavaScript and WebAssembly
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:248 commits, 9 PRs, 63 pushes in 6 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sylvain's primary contribution involves initializing and testing a PocketSphinx decoder within a JavaScript and WebAssembly environment. They added a basic test file demonstrating the initialization of the decoder, including the configuration of acoustic models and best path settings. Furthermore, the user implemented a platform-specific configuration file and initiated the build process for a JavaScript library, indicating efforts to integrate and package the speech recognition capabilities for web usage.
javascriptrecognitionspeech-recognitionwebassemblyspeech
syl22-00/TechDocs
Jul 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:12 commits in 4 months
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