Saigen
Simone Wills is a highly skilled Speech Recognition Researcher at Radboud University, contributing to the Centre for Language and Speech Technology on projects aimed at developing speech technology applications for cognitive decline detection and educational support. Simone also holds dual roles at Saigen as a Linguist and Speech Scientist, focusing on updating phonetic dictionaries and developing automatic speech recognition systems for under-resourced South African languages. Prior experience includes a position as a Research Assistant at the University of Cape Town, where valuable sociophonetic data analytics and transcription work were performed, in addition to tutoring undergraduate linguistics courses. Simone holds a Master of Science in Speech and Language Processing from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, Spanish, Business French, and International Relations from the University of Cape Town.
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Saigen
Saigen want to add value to the activities of our partners in industry, by applying expert knowledge in machine learning and data science to gain insight and value from their data. While being well-published academics, we have also collaborated with international partners to solve interesting and challenging problems: we were part of the consortiumwhich won the recent IARPA-sponsored spoken term detection Babel-program,they worked with Google on Voice search for the South African languages and were the first to build speech recognition systems in all 11 of South Africa’s official languages.