Aparna Mani

Aparna Mani is a Senior Engineer at Miko since September 2022, with a strong background in speech recognition and linguistics. Previous roles include working as a linguist for Auxo Labs from July 2017 to March 2021, where responsibilities involved generating phonetics for English accents and other languages, as well as evaluating pronunciation and speech quality for speech recognition engines. At ASRlytics from June 2015 to November 2018, Aparna contributed as a software developer and linguist by preparing phonetics, language models, grammars, and training data for speech recognition systems like CMUSphinx and Kaldi. Early career as a freelancer from July 2013 to March 2015 focused on phonetics for Indian languages, particularly developing a speech recognition engine for Kannada. Aparna holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from Anurag Engineering College.