What The FinTech by Medhy Souidi

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What The FinTech by Medhy Souidi

Show Notes

Fano Labs is an AI company specializing in speech and natural language processing technologies to help enterprises with their customer services, compliance, and other lines of businesses.

Fano Labs is particularly focusing on mixed languages in Greater China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.

As of today, they have supported some of the most accurate speech recognition engines for Cantonese, Mandarin, English (Indian), English (Singapore), English (Philippines), Thai, and Arabic (Saudi Arabia).

Fano Labs is a spin-off from the University of Hong Kong and backed by the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park, Horizons Ventures, Alibaba, Mr. Antony Leung (Chairman of Nan Fung Group). Website https://www.fano.ai

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