Alberto Pettarin
Welcome!
I am a Python/C/Lua software engineer interested in speech and NLP technologies, high performance computing, and digital publishing.
From June 2017 to November 2025 I worked in the text-to-speech research and development (TTS R&D) team of Cerence AI, Inc. (spin-off of Nuance Communications, Inc.) in Turin, Italy. My last position there was Senior Principal Software Engineer working primarily on Cerence Neural TTS, the highest quality TTS cloud service based on neural network AI models accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs.
Previously, I was a Freelance Python/C Developer, and before that I was the (co-founder, CEO, and) Head of Research of ReadBeyond, a research lab developing innovative software for producing, distributing, and enjoying digital contents.
In another life, I was a Research Collaborator at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Padua, where I got a PhD in Theoretical Computer Science in 2012, for studying random geometric graphs and doing probabilistic analysis of information spreading processes.
I maintain a couple of personal projects, most of them are also on GitHub.
I occasionally write on my blog.
You can get my CV here. Feel free to get in touch.
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