Uliza Aims To Utilise Machine Learning To Provide Phones With Local Languages
Uliza Aims To Utilise Machine Learning To Provide Phones With Local Languages. Uliza provides translation, transcription, interpretation, ivr, and nlp services for businesses that need localized content for Africa and Asia. The company specializes in ivr phone interactions and preparing voice and text data for machine learning applications, through parsing and labelling techniques that leverage distributed teams of 900+ language experts.
The company develops machine learning models in-house and also work in close partnership with leaders in natural language processing for african and asian languages. Grant Bridgman Uliza’s ceo and co-founder, began thinking about how to make phones better information portals for people who speak local languages while working in Sierra Leone. Phones are everywhere, but literacy in english is not. This idea eventually formed Uliza when he met Maity and Janeth at Tufts University. The company brings years of experience in behavioral economics, finance, software development, machine learning, and problem solving in the field.
The company was co-founded by Grant Bridgman who is also the company’s chief executive officer. Grant applies technologies to solve human problems. Grant began thinking about how to make phones better information portals for people who speak local languages when he was in Sierra Leone working with MIT. This idea became Uliza when he met Maity and Janeth. Grant is based in Cape Town. The company was also co-founded by Abhishek Maity, Maity has a background in mathematics and finance. He has worked as a management consultant in the United States, and has experience as an economics teacher in India and in startups in Lebanon and the United States. Maity is a scrupulous data wizard. He is based out of Berlin, Germany.
Uliza was also co-founded by Janeth Jepkogei, Janeth is a software engineer specializing in natural language processing and e-commerce. Janeth has worked as software engineer for Deutsche Bank and Walmart. A native Kiswahili speaker, Janeth is based in the Bay Area, California.
