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I Design How AI Listens, Learns, and Behaves...

Not just prompts. Not just interfaces. The operating systems of meaning.

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The head of my childhood cradle has a bullet hole clear through it.

I was born in Managua during the Sandinista revolution, where voices could topple governments and songs carried bomb-making instructions to farmers who couldn't read.

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I learned early: voices are weapons, shields, and legacies. They build revolutions—or strip them from you. Years later, I was working in Silicon Valley, teaching machines how to speak. I recognized the same forces at play.

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Voice technology isn't just circuitry. It's another stage, another operating system, another way power moves through the world. Every prompt is a law. Every dataset is a precedent. Every interface is a performance.

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And I design the underlying systems.​

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Currently

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Lead AI Conversation Designer for Creative Audio AI at Meta, architecting model behavior and agentic systems for:

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  • Ray-Ban Meta Glasses

  • Oakley Performance eyewear

  • Quest VR Assistant

  • Horizon generative AI experiences

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I've built conversational AI systems across the full evolution:

 

Directed Dialogue to

  • NLU to

  • LLMs to

  • Agentic AI—

 

for Meta, eBay, United Healthcare/Optum, Google Voice Assistant, and Fortune 500 enterprises. Bilingual in English and Spanish. Fluent in the language of both humans and machines.

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The Work

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Most people think AI is about making machines smarter. I know it's about making meaning.

Stories are operating systems...

Before we had semiconductors, we had performance. AI is the next stage of humanity's oldest technology.

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Voice collapses the barrier between "user" and "programmer" because conversation is the programming language we all know.

The language model is never the show—it's the noisy backstage. The real performance happens at the interaction layer.

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The human API is where meaning lives. It's not a dropdown menu—it's a constitution

Intelligence isn't in brute force. It's in rehearsal.

The smartest systems aren't the biggest—they're the ones that fail gracefully and learn in the presence of an audience.

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Bigger models make noise. Better design makes meaning.

@Copyright Alana Cortes 2025. All rights reserved.

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