Off the back of the Guardian Voice Lab project, as well as doing some development work on a forthcoming series due in the autumn, I had the opportunity to produce Politics Weekly for the month of May.

Here are a couple of highlight episodes for me, from the four-week stint:

This episode was recorded as the  Gavin Williamson drama was onfolding, so the script shifted considerably between being written on the Wednesday, and the recording on the Thursday.

And this episode was hosted by Jonathan Freedland, and he displayed a masterful ability to host and steer the debate.

 

BBC Voice & AI

In October I began working with the team at BBC Voice & AI, helping them with their forthcoming beeb voice assistant. It's been fascinating contributing to this process of shaping the assistant's persona, as the team develop their remarkably ambitious project. The...

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The Guardian Voice Lab

At the end of October I was offered a role working on a new initiative from The Guardian developing audio content for Google's Home smart speaker and Google Assistant. Guardian News & Media is pleased to announce the launch of Guardian Voice Lab - an in-house team...

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