Lily Clifford

Lily Clifford is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rime Labs, a San Francisco-based company pioneering next-generation speech synthesis models for real-time enterprise applications. With a background in computational linguistics and sociophonetics, Lily left her Ph.D. program at Stanford University to focus on developing AI voices that capture the nuances of human speech. Under her leadership, Rime Labs has launched innovative text-to-speech models like Mist v2 and Arcana, which are designed for dynamic, customer-facing interactions and are utilized in various industries, including fast food, healthcare, and telecom. Lily's approach emphasizes the importance of capturing unselfconscious speech and diverse linguistic patterns to create more natural and relatable AI voices. Her work has positioned Rime Labs at the forefront of voice AI innovation, enabling businesses to enhance customer engagement through lifelike, expressive, and low-latency speech solutions.