Hello!

After 5 years as Head of ML research at Sonos, I took the lead on a strategic strike in the Summer 2023 and I am now Head of Automatic Speech Recognition, owning every speech-to-text component of Sonos Voice Control, from research to production. I am lucky to work with a team of around 60 extremely talented and passionate people in our R&D department in Paris.

My main mission is to deliver state-of-the-art speech recognition models for the future generation of Sonos Voice Control, tailored to the Sonos ecosystem, and fit for embedded inference as a safeguard to user privacy. I continue working consistently to promote a fruitful and ambitious scientific research environment in the machine learning team that boosts and supports our production goals.

On June 1st 2022, after several yearks of work, we released Sonos Voice Control: an on-device voice control interface on Sonos speakers, putting speed accuracy and privacy on an equal footing. You can find more details in this post on Sonos Tech Blog.

I hold a PhD in statistical physics from the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) since 2016. I focused on high-dimensional inference with graphical models in the context of protein structure prediction.

Contact: coucke [at] phare [dot] normalesup [dot] org

LinkedIn: acoucke