People Digest: Xiaomi ropes in Kaldi creator; Aibee strengthens leadership team

People Digest: Xiaomi ropes in Kaldi creator; Aibee strengthens leadership team

Shanghai, China. Photo by Merlin Kraus on Unsplash

China’s smartphone giant Xiaomi has roped in Daniel Povey, the creator of speech recognition toolkit Kaldi, as its speech recognition chief scientist. In a separate development, Chinese AI startup Aibee names Ken Qi as its new co-founder.

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