Petr Schwarz

Petr Schwarz [PhD, Brno University of Technology, 2009] is a senior researcher in BUT Speech@FIT at the Faculty of Information Technology (FIT) of BUT. He has broad experience in speech technologies ranging from voice biometry, speech transcription, and keyword spotting to language identification. At BUT, Petr worked on many national, EU, and US research projects and many international technology evaluation campaigns like those organized by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In 2006, Petr co-founded Phonexia and served for several years as its CEO and CTO. Phonexia sells speech technologies to more than 60 countries. Currently, he is working on conversational AI technologies and security/defense applications of voice biometry.