About Us
SpeakerText is a premium service for video publishers that turns video into text so that it can be searched, shared and accessed by everyone.
At SpeakerText, we believe that creative people should be acknowledged and rewarded for their hard work. In fact, the company was started by a journalist who wanted to make it easy for bloggers to link back to memorable quotes inside the videos he was making. And we think that we can do this by making video easier to watch and more fun to share, not less. We hope you agree.
Management Team
The Hacker
Matt Swanson is a longtime entrepreneur, web developer and machine learning/artificial intelligence researcher. Building web applications since sophomore year in high school, he started his first company––a textbook importing & arbitrage service for college students––at age 20. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is a Summa Cum Laude graduate in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University. As a Carnegie Mellon researcher, he created computer vision software and machine learning algorithms for the world's first commercial autonomous farming robots.
The Hustler
Matt Mireles is the CEO of SpeakerText. He is a blogger, athlete and adventurer. A former journalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek and the New York Times, he writes a blog about entrepreneurship called The Metamorphosis. Matt paid his way through Columbia University by working as a paramedic in Harlem and the South Bronx. He previously fought wildfires and dug trenches in the dirt as a part of the elite Modoc Interagency Hotshot Crew. He is an honors graduate of Columbia University and has received management training from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
The Respectable One
Tyler Kieft is an electrical engineer and computer programmer from Burlington, Vermont. He began hacking BASIC games in the fourth grade and got his first job in high school working as a Python programmer for IBM. In 2005, he turned down Harvard for a full scholarship to the University of Rochester. There he earned a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Faculty Award for engineering excellence and Summa Cum Laude honors. After developing wafer picking technology for IBM and computer vision software for Lockheed Martin, he turned his back on corporate America and decided to become an entrepreneur.
