Gene Park
Broadcast & Audio Engineering Writer
Spent a career in TV post-production before the AI wave and still trusts meters over marketing. Measures loudness, codecs, and artifacts on everything before a single word gets written.
Beat: AI Audio
- Audio engineering & loudness standards
- Codec & artifact analysis
- Voice model measurement
- Broadcast delivery specs
How Gene tests
Meters over marketing. Every audio tool gets measured — loudness, artifacts, latency — before a word gets written, and the article says exactly which measurements it survived.
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