With great innovation comes great responsibility. Lyrebird and Descript believe a person's voice is part of their identity. We pledge to do our part for individuals to retain control of their voice. Read more on our Ethics page.
Headquartered in Montreal, the Lyrebird team is the AI research division of Descript, the ultimate receptacle of AI-based media synthesis with a real-world application, developing powerful technologies that make content creation easier and more accessible.
Lyrebird was founded by Alexandre de Brébisson, Kundan Kumar, and Jose Sotelo in 2017 while PhD students at MILA, studying under Yoshua Bengio, who won the Turing Prize in 2019 for his pioneering research into deep learning and neural networks.
If you're interested in joining the Lyrebird team to help build the future of media creation, visit our careers page.