Speak in the Country

Client: Alex Raymond, Speechmatics <alexra@speechmatics.com>

People who live in rural areas of low-income countries find it difficult to access online services. They may have low literacy, and often rely on feature phones rather than smartphones for their communication needs. The goal of this project is to help people in that situation access medical advice via the latest speech technology from Cambridge company Speechmatics, in a system that will take voice messages in a local language, transcribe and match their needs to relevant information resources, and return recorded advice or monitor disease outbreaks. Health workers at local clinics should have a dashboard to monitor issues in their region, and also to flag conversations where a human expert needs to intervene.