Duygu Altinok

Duygu Altinok is a Researcher in ASR & NLP with 16 years of experience in almost all areas of ASR and NLP including search engine technology, speech recognition, text analytics and conversational AI. She authored several publications in NLP area at conferences such as INTERSPEECH, ACL, LREC and CLNLP. She also enjoys working for open-source projects and a contributor of Hugging Face. PyTorch and spaCy libraries.

Duygu earned her undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from METU, Ankara in 2010 and later earned her Master’s degree in Mathematics from Bilkent University, Ankara in 2012. She spent 2 years at University of Bonn for her PhD studies. She is currently a senior engineer at Deepgram with a focus on speech recognition.

Originally from Istanbul, Duygu currently resides in Berlin, DE with her cute dog Adele.