Alivox remains at the forefront of language identification software and services, and has recently developed accent identification in its latest release. Alivox’ goal is to facilitate a fundamental change in telephone call handling by the use of language and accent knowledge. Its product ALiS (Automatic Language Identification System) delivers an accurate and fast language or accent identification of a clip of speech (3 seconds) , both live in real time or recorded. This global solution is aimed directly at Multilingual Call Centres and their suppliers, Speech to Text companies, at the growing Speech Analytics and Voice Recording Analytics markets.

Alivox is a high tech spinout from the University of Edinburgh’s world class School of Speech and Language.

Alivox Managment Team:

Iain Mackintosh
Non-exec Chairman and CEO
Iain has over 30 years of business experience including strategic direction-setting, company start-ups, programme management and line management to board director level. He is also currently chairing another company and is actively involved in advising a number of other start ups in the field of Robotics and IT.

Bilal Akram
Director and COO
Bilal is primarily responsible for overseeing business activities along with looking into key corporate planning issues of Alivox. He will also be involved in ensuring that development and financial targets are met.

Bilal gained extensive development experience at Higher Summit Pakistan, developing SMS based software. Prior to that he was the member of Centre for Research in Urdu and Language Processing (CRULP) and has worked on a number of speech and language related projects.

After completing his postgraduate studies from the University of Edinburgh in Computer Speech and Language Processing, Bilal studied with the Chevening Technology Enterprise Programme (CTES) fellowship. This fellowship involved extensive courses for aspiring entrepreneurs from some of the most reputed schools in business studies.

Fahd Baig
Director and CTO
Fahd is primarily responsible for the technology and developmental issues of Alivox; defining long and short term technology direction as well as keeping a business focussed oversight of research and development.

Previously he worked with Centre for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP) in the speech processing group. As the technology lead he was the main force behind a number of research and development projects related to speech recognition in Urdu, speaker recognition research and Automatic Language Identification. He completed his postgraduate studies from the University of Edinburgh in Computer Speech and Language Processing.

David Chisholm
Director of Business Development
David is responsible for the development and delivery, of the sales and marketing strategy, along with, creating, developing and maintaining the correct commercial relationships, which will accelerate Alivox' growth.

He has extensive experience with Telecommunications companies and Call Centre Infrastructure manufacturers, managing high value bids across different market sectors, as well as being a successful independent consultant

Chris Galley
Non-exec Director
Chris brings his experience in all aspects of running IT companies, coupled with over 20 years in the software industry. Prior to Alivox he founded and ran one of Scotland's fastest growing IT companies (Deloitte & Touche Fast 50 for 5 consecutive years) which he sold in 2004. He has an MA in Computer Science from Cambridge and an MBA from Edinburgh.