Chris Mitchell is CEO and founder of Audio Analytic. He has a Ph.D. in information retrieval from Anglia Ruskin University and also holds degrees in audio and music technology and electrical and electronics engineering. He filed a patent for some of the core technology behind Audio Analytic more than a decade ago after completing his Ph.D. and then accepted a Kaufman Fellowship for entrepreneurship in 2007. He returned to Anglia as a lecturer and researcher and founded Audio Analytic in 2010. You may be familiar with speech recognition and how it helps Alexa and Siri understand what you are saying. Audio Analytic is focused on non-speech sound recognition such as sirens, crashes, alarms, and other sonic qualities that occur in our environment.