CJ Smit , Lead Data Engineer , Telkom

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African landscape . “ We ’ re invested in technologies that provide a richer user experience ,” says Phaweni . “ We are very passionate about computer vision and natural language processing . The future of autonomous technology is very promising . Speech technology is a fascinating and important area going forward . We recently built a prototype meeting assistant for the South African market . We quickly realised that Automatic Speech Recognition ( ASR ) for English does not work very well on South African accents . We ’ ve since realised that we need to build our own ASR . We are starting by building a large dataset with thousands of hours of transcribed audio . We ’ re excited about the potential that this has .”

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