The best person at Topaz Labs to identify and negotiate a strategic partnership in audio enhancement would be Ross Shain, given his official responsibility as Strategic Partnerships & Product Leadership and deep experience bridging technology and business development in media and VFX.
This proposal has served its purpose.
Discussion follows from this Jan 2022 post
Why should Topaz not be the one to do this internally, and rather seek a strategic partner to expand the appeal and competitive advantage of the video feature of the upcoming Topaz Studio?
Topaz has a core competency in video and still image process.
In any potential strategic alliance one must ask: What is in it for each party? Are the benefits comparable? Would the partnership adversely affect existing alliances or not?
Video enhancement + audio enhancement are complimentary technologies.
In addition to the business case for a strategic alliance is the technology review of the two potential partners. Can the two technologies be made to appear seamless to the user?
To summarize, a tire that may be worth kicking:
Revoize
Perhaps look to the thriving YouTube for innovation:
UniConverter
AVCLabs Video Enhancer AI
