Heiki Riesenkampf

People ask me, why did I go into machine learning when I was able to do research in any part of computer science? I personally always felt that machine learning was the one part of computer science where if you showed someone what state of the art was able to do, an average person that didn't know how it worked, they would always feel like it's magical.

People ask me, why did I go into machine learning when I was able to do research in any part of computer science? I personally always felt that machine learning was the one part of computer science where if you showed someone what state of the art was able to do, an average person that didn't know how it worked, they would always feel like it's magical.

People ask me, why did I go into machine learning when I was able to do research in any part of computer science? I personally always felt that machine learning was the one part of computer science where if you showed someone what state of the art was able to do, an average person that didn't know how it worked, they would always feel like it's magical.

I feel like that magic that machine learning has, it's still there. That's the reason why I love that space so much. That's the reason why I've stayed in that space so much. That's the same principle that I apply to the products that I build. My name is Hege Riesenkamp, and I'm the founder and CEO of CommonBase.

I feel like that magic that machine learning has, it's still there. That's the reason why I love that space so much. That's the reason why I've stayed in that space so much. That's the same principle that I apply to the products that I build. My name is Hege Riesenkamp, and I'm the founder and CEO of CommonBase.

I feel like that magic that machine learning has, it's still there. That's the reason why I love that space so much. That's the reason why I've stayed in that space so much. That's the same principle that I apply to the products that I build. My name is Hege Riesenkamp, and I'm the founder and CEO of CommonBase.

CommonBase today is a universal speech translator. We help people speak any language in real time and help people connect with each other across language barrier and also cultural barriers. The company was started last year. After having spent some time working on the initial product, I realized I didn't want that to be my life's work.

CommonBase today is a universal speech translator. We help people speak any language in real time and help people connect with each other across language barrier and also cultural barriers. The company was started last year. After having spent some time working on the initial product, I realized I didn't want that to be my life's work.

CommonBase today is a universal speech translator. We help people speak any language in real time and help people connect with each other across language barrier and also cultural barriers. The company was started last year. After having spent some time working on the initial product, I realized I didn't want that to be my life's work.

That's after having moved to the US, I realized that my unique lens, my unique personal experience, led me to discover the language problem, especially being here as an immigrant and realize that, hey, this is something that I have personally felt throughout my life needing to adjust to different languages and cultures. And this is something that I want to see as my life's work.

That's after having moved to the US, I realized that my unique lens, my unique personal experience, led me to discover the language problem, especially being here as an immigrant and realize that, hey, this is something that I have personally felt throughout my life needing to adjust to different languages and cultures. And this is something that I want to see as my life's work.

That's after having moved to the US, I realized that my unique lens, my unique personal experience, led me to discover the language problem, especially being here as an immigrant and realize that, hey, this is something that I have personally felt throughout my life needing to adjust to different languages and cultures. And this is something that I want to see as my life's work.

And so that's the story of how I got to what I'm currently working on.

And so that's the story of how I got to what I'm currently working on.

And so that's the story of how I got to what I'm currently working on.

The very first version of CommonBase was built on top of third party APIs. If you think of the problem of speech translation, you have different ways of solving the problem, but at a high level, you need to take the existing speech, you need to transcribe it into text, you need to take the text, translate the text into another language, and turn the translated text into speech again.

The very first version of CommonBase was built on top of third party APIs. If you think of the problem of speech translation, you have different ways of solving the problem, but at a high level, you need to take the existing speech, you need to transcribe it into text, you need to take the text, translate the text into another language, and turn the translated text into speech again.

The very first version of CommonBase was built on top of third party APIs. If you think of the problem of speech translation, you have different ways of solving the problem, but at a high level, you need to take the existing speech, you need to transcribe it into text, you need to take the text, translate the text into another language, and turn the translated text into speech again.

So that is the initial pipeline of how we built the first version of the product. And the different tools that we relied upon was Twilio for connecting phone calls. And we ended up going with DeepRAM for the speech transcription. Now we're using Llama run on Grok for the translation, and we're using 11 Labs for the speech generation.

So that is the initial pipeline of how we built the first version of the product. And the different tools that we relied upon was Twilio for connecting phone calls. And we ended up going with DeepRAM for the speech transcription. Now we're using Llama run on Grok for the translation, and we're using 11 Labs for the speech generation.