Gregor Hofer has a wealth of industry knowledge as well as a strong academic background,holding a PhD in informatics from the University of Edinburgh. He was a senior researcher at the Telecommunications Research Centre in Vienna and a research fellow at the School of Informatics before co-founding Speech Graphics. It was then that he developed text-to-speech artificial intelligence and commercialised a prototype that is currently utilised on official websites.
Gregor co-founded Speech Graphics with Michael Berger and gaming industry veteran Colin Macdonald in 2010 to commercialize voice-activated facial animation. Since then, the group has won numerous honours, such as the John Logie Baird Award for innovation and the 2022/2023 TIGA Award for Best Technology Supplier.
As an extension of Speech Graphics Gregor launched Rapport in 2024, with the goal of specialising in emotionally intelligent virtual interactive personas. In addition to his full-time role at Speech Graphics,, Gregor is also Supervisory Board member at System Industrie Electronic Holding AG.
Gregor Hofer 拥有深厚的行业经验和扎实的学术背景，持有爱丁堡大学信息学博士学位。在联合创办 Speech Graphics 公司之前，他曾担任维也纳电信研究中心高级研究员及信息学院研究员。同期，他研发了文本转语音人工智能技术，并将一款原型产品商业化，该产品目前已应用于多个平台。
2010 年，Gregor Hofer 与 Michael Berger 以及游戏行业资深人士 Colin Macdonald 共同创办了 Speech Graphics，致力于将声控面部动画技术商业化。自成立以来，该公司斩获多项荣誉，包括表彰创新成就的约翰・洛吉・贝尔德奖以及 2022-2023 年度 TIGA 最佳技术供应商奖。
2024 年，Gregor Hofer 在 Speech Graphics 的业务基础上推出了 Rapport，旨在专注于研发具备情感智能的虚拟交互形象。除了在 Speech Graphics 担任全职工作外，格雷戈尔同时也是 System Industrie Electronic Holding AG 的监事会成员。
