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###### Podcasts

###### Nov 26, 2025

# Diving Deep into Rime and TTS with CEO Lily Clifford

🚀 New Skywatch Episode Just Dropped!

Today I sat down with [Lily Clifford](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lilyjclifford/), CEO & Co-Founder of [Rime](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rime-ai/), one of the teams pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in text-to-speech and conversational AI.

Rime is building linguistically-grounded TTS models. Their work is already reshaping industries like fast food, support, and agentic voice automation.

In this episode, Lily and I dive into:

🔹 Rime’s path from research to real-world deployment

🔹 How they’re powering next-gen conversational agents in high-volume industries

🔹 The hardest challenges in TTS (latency, emotion, prosody, multilingual alignment)

If you're building voice agents, LLM-powered workflows, or experimenting with synthetic conversations — this one is worth the listen.

🎧 Watch the full episode here:

👉 Youtube: [https://lnkd.in/gavb28MY](https://lnkd.in/gavb28MY)

👉 Spotify: [https://lnkd.in/giG6A4gj](https://lnkd.in/giG6A4gj)