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Bengaluru, Ka, In

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led the design and development of data collection and speech recognition pipelinesfor custom language and acoustic models, optimizing existing parser for language processing.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Designed and developed connectors to integrate A.ware, the company’s proprietary bot platform with different channels such as Google Assistant, Alexa, Hangouts, IVR.- Designed the platform-agnostic response structure of A.ware, capable of being extended to multiple user interfaces(text, speech), languages and response elements.- Designed and developed the speech recognition(Speech-to-Text or STT) and generation(Text-to-Speech or TTS) capabilities on A.ware. Further modularized these… Show more - Designed and developed connectors to integrate A.ware, the company’s proprietary bot platform with different channels such as Google Assistant, Alexa, Hangouts, IVR.- Designed the platform-agnostic response structure of A.ware, capable of being extended to multiple user interfaces(text, speech), languages and response elements.- Designed and developed the speech recognition(Speech-to-Text or STT) and generation(Text-to-Speech or TTS) capabilities on A.ware. Further modularized these functionalities into a middleware to support interactions on a custom voice assistant hardware.- Led the research and development into a custom Speech-to-Text engine using open-source toolkits and frameworks like Kaldi, DeepSpeech.- As part of product management responsibilities, I eliminated the 1 week time between sprints by reducing development bottlenecks, increased average bug fixes per sprint by 70%, led sprint planning and backlog management in collaboration with different stakeholders.- Led the implementation of multilingual capabilities on a multi-tenant architecture of A.ware with emphasis on data collection for custom translation tasks. Show less

Bengaluru Area, India