Bespoke Studios

Company: Bespoke (bespokecast.ai)

Engagement: Short-term consulting, remote, independent contractor. Paid hourly or by fixed-scope opinion. Possible follow-on work.

Must be located in or near the San Francisco Bay Area.

What We're Looking For

Someone with real hands-on experience working close to the physics of audio and speech — how sound travels, how it degrades, and how to tell one voice apart from another in a noisy room. That could come from broadcast/production sound, hearing-aid engineering, mobile audio DSP, or speaker diarization work. You don't need to have solved our exact problem before, just have the technical grounding to reason through it with us.

What You'd Deliver

Mostly your assessment and guidance rather than a written report. We'll walk you through what we've tried so far, and you'll help us understand what's likely to work and what isn't worth pursuing further. If it turns into ongoing work, the first real step would likely involve hands-on time with the actual hardware and real-world recordings.

Relevant Background

• Body-worn / lavalier microphone practice — production sound, broadcast, or mic-manufacturer applications engineering
• Near-field and body-boundary acoustics; reverberation and near/far discrimination in small rooms
• Own-voice detection for hearing aids or hearables
• Real-time speech DSP on gain-uncalibrated device fleets
• Android audio internals — HAL, USB audio class, capture-path gain staging
• Speaker diarization / speaker ID in noisy production audio

To Apply

Send a short note with relevant background to careers@bespokecast.ai and your answer to this:

A lavalier is clipped at the chest, ~15–20 cm from the wearer's mouth. A second talker is ~1 m away, across a counter, at roughly the same height. Approximately how much rejection would swapping the omni capsule for a cardioid buy us, and what do you need to know to answer?

Brief is fine. We're more interested in how you frame it than in the number.

Engagement Terms

This is an independent contractor engagement, not employment. No employee benefits (health insurance, PTO, equity); contractor handles their own taxes (1099 or equivalent) and controls how the work gets done within agreed scope and deadlines.