Rudolf Braun
Research Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRudolf Braun is a research engineer with 11 years of experience building and improving speech recognition systems across startups, research labs, and cloud services. Currently on AWS Transcribe Science, he brings deep hands-on expertise in ASR model training, OOV-word recognition, subword modeling, and self-supervised learning from prior roles at Idiap and Speechmatics. He has founded and led audio-focused ventures—including a navigation device for the blind and an on-device free speech-to-text app—demonstrating a mix of product intuition and applied research. Rudolf has published peer-reviewed work on OOV recognition and has practical experience adapting WFSTs and automatic pronunciation learning for multilingual ASR. Comfortable moving models from research to production, he has consulted for telecom clients and scaled systems across dozens of languages. Based in New York, he pairs startup grit with academic rigor to solve real-world speech problems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Engineering Physics at Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Github Skills (200)
transformers10
language-model10
speech-processing10
python10
speech-enhancement10
text-to-speech10
huggingface10
deep-learning10
speech10
gpu10
sequence-to-sequence10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
webdataset10
numpy10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RuABraun/RuABraun.github.io
Oct 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:122 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
RuABraun/texterrors
Mar 2019 - Jul 2022
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 95 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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