Sagar Savla
| Sagar Savla | |
|---|---|
| Born | Mumbai, India |
| 🏳️ Nationality | United States |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Georgia Tech University of Mumbai |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏅 Awards | Gates Award |
Sagar Savla is an Indian-American computer science researcher and product executive.[1][2] He is noted[3][4] for his research in the space of machine learning and accessibility technologies such as the accessibility app Live Transcribe.[5][6] The app has over 500 million installs on the Play Store.[7] His talks have also been featured at Consumer Electronics Show[8] and Nordic Media Days.[9]
Education and career
Savla studied computer science under Thad Starner at Georgia Institute of Technology. While there, he won the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Award[10] for his work on Career Hive.
Savla joined Google in 2016 in the research group working on TensorFlow[11] and worked with Richard F. Lyon on sound recognition and Vint Cerf on artificial intelligence in accessibility.[12] In 2019, he co-invented the Live Transcribe app.[13] In 2020, he launched another Android Hearing Accessibility app called Sound Notifications.[14]
Notable publications
- "Auditory Measures for the Next Billion Users". Ear and Hearing. 41: 131S. November 2020. ISSN 1538-4667.
- "Breaking Boundaries with Live Transcribe: Expanding Use Cases Beyond Standard Captioning Scenarios". The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1–6. 2020-10-26. ISBN 978-1-4503-7103-2.
Personal life
Savla is also known to be an early pioneer to do an "internet wedding" in 2019, with 30 hours of video calls with guests from around the world.[15][16]
References
- ↑ "Google's Sagar Savla Built An App That Can Help 466 Million People Who Can't Hear Communicate". The Times of India.
- ↑ "How Google Is Improving Technology for Deaf People - Google". about.google. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "Googleが聴覚障がい者をサポートする4つのアクセシビリティ機能｜TECH+｜IT製品の事例・解説記事". web.archive.org. 2021-05-19. Archived from the original on 2021-05-19. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "사가 사블라 구글 매니저 "실시간 대화도 받아쓰기 척척…연말엔 인터넷 없이 사용가능"". 매일경제 (in 한국어). 2022-07-19. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "What World Hearing Day means for this Googler".
- ↑ Aquino, Steven. "Google Introduces Sound Notifications For Android, New Live Transcribe Timeline View". Forbes. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "Live Transcribe & Notification - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "Sagar Savla - CES 2016". web.archive.org. 2015-12-28. Archived from the original on 2015-12-28. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "Sagar Savla - Nordiske mediedager". web.archive.org. 2018-04-12. Archived from the original on 2018-04-12. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ Pendered, David. "Tech's Gates award, student projects highlight pace of cyber technology".
- ↑ "TensorFlow Roadshow 2018 - Google Zürich - Speakers". events.withgoogle.com. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "Auditory Measures for the Next Billion Users". Ear and Hearing. 41: 131S. November 2020. doi:10.1097/AUD.0000000000000955. ISSN 1538-4667.
- ↑ "Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe".
- ↑ "Important household sounds become more accessible". Google. 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ "Gujarat Samachar ePaper Mumbai Edition". web.archive.org. 2019-12-30. Archived from the original on 2019-12-30. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ↑ Jaloza, Lisa Brown (2019-10-25). "Tying the knot with Portal: How one couple got engaged over Facebook's video calling device". Tech at Meta. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
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