About me
Mark Boas is a media technologist. Currently CTO at TheirStory his interest in AI dates back to 90s leading him to a Masters in Knowledge Based Systems. Fast forward to 2010 and Mark was working on audiovisual content on the web, releasing the open source media library jPlayer, downloaded by millions and used by platforms such as Pandora.com. In 2012 Mark developed a new technology – Hyperaudio – making spoken word media accessible through timed transcripts. As a 2012 Knight-Mozilla Open News fellow, Mark experimented with Hyperaudio at Al Jazeera and again in 2014 with Palestine Remix. In 2014 he co-founded Trint.com, creating the first transcript editor. Leaving Trint in 2017 he worked on emerging media technologies for organisations such as BBC News Labs. In 2024 Mark joined TheirStory and is using AI such as speech-to-text algorithms and other AI generated metadata for media, all released as open source.