About

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From Emmy-Winning Sound to Indigenous Language Revitalization

Craig Carpenter is a sound designer, researcher, and Director of Talking Owl Technologies. With more than 20 years of professional audio experience and an Emmy Award in production sound, his work now supports Indigenous-led language revitalization, ecoacoustics, secure storage, and community-governed media practices.

As a settler collaborator, Craig works with deep respect for Indigenous knowledge, governance, and land-based relationships. His practice is shaped by active relationships with Tsartlip First Nation and with several Okanagan communities through the En’owkin Centre. His role is to support Indigenous partners in protecting their materials, strengthening local capacity, and sharing their truths on their own terms.

Craig’s current work brings together land-based listening, ecoacoustics, digitization, and emerging speech technologies, including speech-to-text alignment, ReadAlong tools, and community-controlled language databases. Through Talking Owl Technologies, he helps develop careful workflows for recording, preserving, organizing, and accessing cultural and linguistic materials in alignment with Indigenous data sovereignty and local protocols.

At its heart, Craig’s work is about listening: to land, water, language, memory, and community. He sees sound as one way to support reconciliation, deepen relational responsibility, and help Indigenous languages be heard, spoken, sung, and carried forward.

Craig lives in Peachland, British Columbia, on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the syilx/Okanagan people, with his wife, Élise, a visual artist, and their son, Gabriel.

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