Gallery – ROBBY KILGORE

ChatterWolf

Robby — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:11:25 +0000

Recently I've gotten fascinated with a game called Werewolf - which is based a similar social deduction game "Mafia". Players have limited information and have to talk amongst themselves to try and figure out who did what to whom, and who knew what when, before time runs out.

Tooling for expressive TTS

Robby — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:09:26 +0000

Over the last several years I’ve worked on a number of ways to make computer generated speech more expressive.Not just a bit, but radically more so. A Christmas Carol - audiobook excerpt Several years ago before the Cambrian explosion of neural speech models – I spent a lot of time working on parametric synthesis. The … Continue reading →

Discography

Robby — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:20:00 +0000

For a time, I made a living playing keyboard and programming synthesizers on a lots of the records made in NY, LA, and London. I'd forgotten many of them, but thanks to the inter-tubes they've been hoovered up into a nice discography. Here's a listing of some you'll remember - others, not so much.

Exploring the Fifths Patch

Robby — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 05:52:55 +0000

I love alternate tunings. As a kid, I learned to play folk guitar, and I’d experimented a little with a couple of the more common “open tunings” used for bottleneck blues and such, I didn’t really get into deeply until I started listening to Joni Mitchell. She kind of blew my mind. Much later as … Continue reading →

Dragon Desktop Assistant

Robby — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:56:39 +0000

Dragon Desktop Assistant

Interactive Audiobook

Robby — Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:42:42 +0000

Audio animation: A proof of concept for my iOS based speech-driven "interactive audiobook" I developed while at Nuance.

Ford Sync 2

Robby — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:03:57 +0000

I led the design team for Ford Sync 2. Shot this in Montreal while testing the design on a prototype. Click the image to see a video of some prototype testing I was doing in Montreal in March, 2010.

Drum Toy

Robby — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:22:26 +0000

Drum Toy is a semi-automated drum machine. But Drum Toy's special feature is that aside from having straight beats, it allows for automatic variations based on probability.

Redesign of the Midi Rotator Hardware

Robby — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:03:00 +0000

I made a field trip to "Electric City" in Akihabara where I was able to buy a bunch of electronics parts that allowed me to start work on yet another version of the midi rotator.

Harmonic Expansionism

Robby — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:08:05 +0000

As a kid, I’d experimented with a number of “open tunings” on guitar. So I thought, “What if you could do the same thing on keyboard?”