Dane Madsen is a Full Stack Software Engineer with nine years of practical experience, currently building web and mobile solutions at QIT Plus in Brisbane. He combines a strong academic foundation from QUT—including a master's in Information Technology—with applied expertise in disaster management and AI, making him adept at building resilient, data-driven systems. Comfortable across the full stack, Dane blends front-end and back-end development to deliver user-focused applications that address real-world operational challenges. His background includes hands-on, non-tech work as a butcher, an unusual early-career experience that informs his pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to engineering.
9 years of coding experience
Master's degree, Information Technology, 6.197, Master's degree, Information Technology, 6.197 at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)
Babylon.cpp is a C and C++ library for grapheme to phoneme conversion and text to speech synthesis. For phonemization a ONNX runtime port of the DeepPhonemizer model is used. For speech synthesis VITS models are used. Piper models are compatible after a conversion script is run.
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 5 PRs in 1 year 8 months
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