Neil Zeghidour
AI researcher and CEO of Gradium AI (formerly with DeepMind/Google and Meta) specializing in speech and audio models, known for pioneering work on neural audio codecs and real-time conversational voice AI.
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Feb 19, 2026 • 1h 23min
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Why Everything Is Changing Now (ft. Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
Neil Zeghidour, AI researcher and CEO of Gradium AI (ex-DeepMind/Google, Meta), guides a tour of modern Voice AI. He explains why voice is finally natural, the shift from cascaded stacks to speech-to-speech and full-duplex, and the engineering tradeoffs of on-device, compact models. Topics include neural audio codecs, instant cloning, noisy multi-speaker challenges, and how small teams can build production-grade voice systems.
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Apr 7, 2026 • 7min
🎤 Gradium : la voix IA en temps réel (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium)
Neil Zeghidour, cofondateur de Gradium et du labo Kyutai, développe des modèles d’IA vocale en temps réel. Il parle de briques pour retranscrire, générer, transformer et traduire la voix. Il évoque la séparation recherche/commercial, des premiers clients rapides et des usages comme support téléphonique, jeux et clonage vocal interactif.
