Character.AI
IIT Kanpur
Université de MontréalOpenAI
Product Designer
via OpenAI
Researcher · Engineer · Founder
Kundan Kumar
KK
Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Kumar co-founded Lyrebird, one of the earliest public voice-cloning platforms, then helped turn its research into Descript's Overdub and Studio Sound editing tools. His work includes SampleRNN, MelGAN and the Descript Audio Codec; at OpenAI he leads research on real-time speech interfaces.
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