Xavier Anguera is the co-founder and CTO of ELSA Corp.  Within ELSA he is responsible for engineering, research in speech/AI, and data science.  

Prior to ELSA, he founded a digital electronic/audio-books publisher aimed at helping language learners getting used to the language while reading. Earlier in his career, he was one of the founding researchers in the multimedia research department at Telefonica, where he pursued research in speech and multimedia processing. 

Xavier holds a Ph.D. in speech processing since 2006 and is the co-author of over 120 published research publications.  He is also the co-inventor in multiple awarded/pending patents and an active contributor to the open-source community.  

Over the years he has participated and/or organized multiple scientific open challenge competitions in the speech and multimedia areas. 

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Xavier's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xanguera/