Co-founder and CPO of Monoceros Labs.


Nieves Ábalos, Computer Engineer from UGR, is an expert in conversational interfaces and co-founder of Monoceros Labs, an Innovation Studio specialized in speech technologies and Conversational AI. Since 2019, Nieves has led Women in Voice Spain, and in 2020 she was internationally recognized as an Alexa Champion. At Monoceros Labs, they research and apply Artificial Intelligence to create digital or synthetic voices in Spanish and co-official languages, with clients like RTVE and PRISA. Additionally, they offer Fonos, a text-to-speech SaaS with AI-generated voices in Spanish and its linguistic variations. Among these voices is “Izar,” the first synthetic voice in Andalusian available on platforms. Furthermore, since 2018, the company has stood out as a Featured Agency of Amazon Alexa, developing voice applications such as Veo Veo, Pasapalabra for Atresmedia, and Diana for Grupo Planeta.