Dr. Juergen Schroeter

As Kirusa's Director of Innovation and Business Development, Juergen is responsible for introducing new technologies and associated business development. Kirusa is one of the leading Mobile Social Media and Value Added Service providers in the world, focusing on helping people in many emerging markets maximize the value they derive from their cell phones. Kirusa has partnered with more than 30 carriers in Africa, Middle East, South and South East Asia, CALA, and Eastern Europe.

Broad responsibilities for Speech Recognition (ASR) and Speech Synthesis (TTS) including management of Finite-State Machine (FSM) based fast search/decoding, pronunciation modeling (dictionaries), language and acoustic modeling/adaptation. All integrated in AT&T WATSON℠ speech recognition and AT&T Natural Voices™ text-to-speech engines and AT&T's speech technology platforms.

Acoustics, Signal Processing, Economics, Business Administration