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AVIAH MORAG
SOFTWARE ARCHITECT & CREATOR
I make people and machines understand each other — in any language, any culture.
NOW — SORATO / LOQAL
Founder & CTO/CEO/CPO of Sorato. Loqal teaches a language the way you actually live it — real-time AI avatar conversations, real scenarios, real culture, across 10 languages. Human-centered generative AI, the thing I've chased my whole career.
Sorato Inc. · San Francisco · Jan 2026–present
Avatar conversations you can actually talk to, structured lessons, flashcards, writing practice, and creator content — with accessibility built in from day one.
Generative video avatars
A personal AI avatar from a single photo and a short voice sample.
Thousands of TTS voices
Speech synthesis and voice cloning at scale — a specialty going back to Siri.
14 YEARS AT APPLE
Software engineer and founder of Apple's Linguistics Team, then Apple's in-country technology evangelist for Israel across EMEIA. Drove Siri's multilingual rollout across 20+ languages and built Apple's first Hebrew & Arabic localization teams. Recognized for advancing accessibility and inclusion.
HISTORIKER COMING TO STEAM
A quiet, first-person narrative game (Unreal Engine 5). You inherit a train station whose four platforms open onto Berlin, Paris, New York and Hong Kong across a century — a clue in one decade recontextualizes another. No combat, no timers. Built solo under the studio name PlatformOne.
THE WORKBENCH
Where I go to play and to prove things out — from a GPT built from scratch to a soldering-to-PCB pipeline.
Breadboard Lab
Idea to parts to ESP32 firmware to simulation to KiCad schematic to a fabricated PCB. A native macOS maker pipeline.
Ayin — Hebrew OCR
Reads printed Hebrew from images, with a Core ML language model correcting the output.
AOPA Israel BETA
The pilots' association website — Next.js, bilingual RTL, member and billing systems.
Chuck's Quest
A hand-built 2D platformer (Swift + SpriteKit), parallax and all.
JustDig HACK DAY
A hypercasual voxel mining game — tap to smash blocks, collect materials, and auto-craft shovels up to gold before the clock runs out. Three.js on web and iOS. Built at a Community Hack Day with Kyoto Tech Meet, August 2026.
GPT from scratch
Built a GPT-style language model from the ground up to really understand the machinery of modern AI.
Custom TTS voices
Trained bespoke text-to-speech models — including an open-source Yiddish voice.
Little tools that live on this site:
CREATIVE WORK
Outside the code — everything below is real work of mine: 3D and film, cooking and wine, and original music you can play right here.
DESIGN
Small design projects, interfaces, and visual experiments.
MUSIC
Songs, sketches, and audio experiments.
COOKING
Food I make, recipes I care about, and things that worked.
HOMES — STAY WITH ME
Beyond Jaffa, I planned and built two homes abroad — each open for booking.
A FEW OTHER LIVES
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