Danyuan Ho
Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
School of Humanities
Summary
A phonetician in a computer science lab.
Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up. - Frederick Jelinek
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Work Experience
Research Associate (Speech Lab) May 2018
Temasek Lab @ NTU Singapore- Responsible for managing the corpus and preparing training data for my lab’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) model
- Created the Singapore Mandarin and code-switching speech database and expanded the phonetic dictionary.
- Collaborated with various NTU parties and government ministries by aiding them in using our laboratory’s speech-to-text technology.
- Set up a training data pipeline by working with vendors to expedite the collection of audio and transcript data in order to ensure a steady stream of training data.
- Oversee and controlling the quality of training data.
- Supervised polytechnic interns in developing algorithms for data processing and trained junior linguists to perform quality translation.
Education
Translation and Interpretation Studies (Humanities And Social Science) Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Nanyang Technological University SingaporeMA in Translation and Interpretation Studies
Linguistics And Multilingual Studies (Humanities And Social Science) Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
Nanyang Technological University SingaporeMaster of Arts
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Q&A with Danyuan Ho
I have a degree in Linguistics and Multilingual Studies. Am I employable?
My career advice is you need Linguistics + X. Linguistics is the background that you already have at some level and X is whatever else you like doing or have experience in or can develop skills with.
Read this article for more details: https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/127108472299/career-advice-linguistics-x?fbclid=IwAR21Uu43KHJFGXu9Yt4f8yiatTVRGGEzh79LPdw4IABruEvPJxQcaID5t1U
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