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Meet FRATCH Experts in Frankfurt, who have recently used Automatic Speech Recognition
Maxime D.
Last position:
Lead Product Manager E-invoicing & AI at fino data services GmbH
- Responsible for the concept, planning, and implementation of the product development of GetMyInvoices 2.0 and the subcomponent InvoiceRails
- Independent work on all aspects of the project, including concept, specification in tickets, and coordination of developers
- Creation, management, and prioritization of tickets to ensure all tasks are completed on time and with high quality
- Carrying out and/or coordinating tests and ensuring the proper implementation of the developed features and functionalities
- Close collaboration with developers to clarify technical requirements and ensure the implementations match the specifications
- Regular reporting on project progress and documentation of key decisions, changes, and risks
- Taking on the subject matter lead for all topics around e-invoicing and Peppol, especially in relation to the InvoiceRails component
- Internal consulting and knowledge sharing on e-invoicing and Peppol for other teams and departments
- Tracking market trends and new developments in e-invoicing and Peppol to continuously adapt the product strategy
- Ensuring the long-term scalability and flexibility of the products for future technical and regulatory changes in the e-invoicing area
Minh D.
Last position:
Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager at Finance and Insurance
Introducing 5 different process applications for various teams
Release planning: scope and time management
Resource/capacity planning
Conducting sprint planning / retrospectives
Increment planning (multiple sprints)
Preparing steering committee meetings / reporting to the executive board
Coordinating / aligning with external suppliers / deliveries
Multi-project resource planning
Aligning with the business unit and development team
Identifying best practices with IBM BAW
Cost control and planning for the project team and external service providers
Collecting KPIs using LogScale
Analyzing application errors with LogScale / queries
Defining user stories / aligning requirements with the business unit and development team
Testing and defect tracking
UI/UX design of the application
Preparing and facilitating brown-paper workshop
Test concept, test data, test organization, test execution
Recording team velocity / metrics
Executing tests
Scripts for automated testing
Organizing tests with the business unit and IT
Recording and prioritizing defects
Setting up and operating the application
Setting up application monitoring with LogScale dashboards
Checking health endpoints with PowerShell
Post mortem analysis
Setting up incident management
Setting up problem management
Analyzing errors using LogScale queries and dashboard
Pre-processing data for AI
Conducting evaluation with AI language models (Meta Llama 3.3 LLM and deepset Haystack) and RAG
Installing runtime environments for LLMs (large language model)
Evaluating various LLMs
Installing RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and integrating with LLM
Extracting unstructured data with LLM and RAG
Project based on IBM BAW (Business Automation Workflow), WebSphere Liberty, Domea, d.3, REST, LogScale (formerly Humio), Swagger, PowerShell, JIRA, Confluence, Lucom Interaction Platform (LIP), Mattermost, Jabber
Jochen H.
Last position:
DevSecOps Expert at DB InfraGO
- Central build and delivery for 20+ applications, 100+ pipelines/day, 700+ GitLab projects
- Build pipelines for Go, Java and JavaScript
- Provisioning of 100+ components
- Quality assurance via GitLab Code Quality and SonarQube
- Checks for dependencies, licensing and vulnerabilities
- Release creation via Jira and ServiceNow
- SBOM, Supply Chain Security, distroless images
- PoC GitLab Runner: Nomad vs. Kubernetes
- Technologies: Artifactory, buildah, GitLab Premium, Go, Gradle, Jenkins, Mend, Podman
Michael Y.
Last position:
Senior Consultant, Senior DevOps Engineer at DB Regio AG
- Supported implementation and operation of a portal used online and offline in customer-facing vehicles
- Automated processes by introducing CI/CD pipelines
- Provided enablement and methodological guidance for adopting software engineering best practices
- System environment: NestJS, Node.js, npm, AWS, Docker, Docker Swarm, GitLab CI, WhiteSource, PostgreSQL, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, REST API
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Statistics of experts using Automatic Speech Recognition
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years (Germany: 20 years)

Position duration
2.5 years (Germany: 2.1 years)

Positions per freelancer
21 (Germany: 13)

Top business areas
Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Top industries
Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Telecommunication

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Legal
Bachelor's degree or higher
100% (Germany: 95%)
Master's degree or higher
67% (Germany: 65%)

Certifications per freelancer
2

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
100% (Germany: 95%)
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
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Average rates of experts in Frankfurt using Automatic Speech Recognition
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The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Automatic Speech Recognition experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Banking and Finance (100%)
- Information Technology (100%)
- Telecommunication (100%)
- Transportation (75%)
- Automotive (50%)
- Manufacturing (50%)
- Government and Administration (50%)
- Biotechnology (25%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Speech-to-text work
Automatic Speech Recognition turns spoken audio into text. It is used for transcription, captions, voice search, meeting notes, contact center analysis, and command input. Many teams also call it ASR or speech-to-text.
Core stack
- Audio capture and preprocessing
- Acoustic and language model tuning
- Streaming and batch transcription
- Confidence scoring and punctuation
- Human review workflows
Strong professionals know how to handle accents, background noise, and domain terms. They also understand latency, diarization, and text cleanup so the output is usable in real systems.
Where it fits
ASR shows up in customer service, media, healthcare, mobility, and enterprise search. In Frankfurt, it is often part of multilingual operations, finance workflows, and teams that need reliable transcription across channels.
When to bring in help
Companies bring in freelance specialists when a transcription pipeline misses names, struggles with live audio, or needs to scale across languages and speakers. They are also useful for vendor comparisons, proof of concept work, and model evaluation.
What good specialists do
- Measure recognition quality on real audio
- Improve prompts, vocabularies, and post-processing
- Integrate APIs into apps and workflows
- Set up monitoring for drift and error patterns
- Align output with compliance and review needs
Skills around ASR
The best experts combine speech recognition knowledge with NLP, audio engineering, cloud services, and data handling. They can work with popular ASR APIs, open-source toolchains, and custom pipelines, and they know when speech-to-text needs fine tuning instead of a full rebuild.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Automatic Speech Recognition.
Automatic Speech Recognition converts spoken audio into text that systems can search, store, and process. Companies use it for captions, call analysis, meeting transcripts, voice interfaces, and searchable archives. It is most useful when speech needs to become structured data fast.
ASR is faster and easier to scale than manual transcription, but quality depends on audio conditions and vocabulary. Compared with generic speech-to-text APIs, a tailored setup can handle industry terms, accents, and speaker noise better. A strong freelancer knows when the default model is enough and when the workflow needs tuning.
A strong speech recognition specialist usually understands audio preprocessing, NLP, API integration, and evaluation methods. Familiarity with diarization, streaming pipelines, and post-processing is also valuable. For product work, cloud services and basic data engineering help a lot.
Automatic Speech Recognition work is easier when you can share sample audio, target languages, expected latency, and the type of text output you need. A specialist can still help shape the brief if the use case is not fully clear. The more realistic the sample audio, the better the plan.
Most ASR work can be done remotely because the core tasks are model selection, pipeline setup, testing, and integration. On-site time in Frankfurt can help when teams need access to internal systems, recorded calls, or local stakeholders. Many projects use a hybrid setup with remote delivery and short in-person workshops.
Look for clear testing on your own audio, not just polished demos. A good Automatic Speech Recognition freelancer explains trade-offs around latency, cost, language coverage, and error handling. They should also show how they measure quality on real transcripts and how they fix recurring mistakes.
Speech recognition becomes harder when speakers switch languages, use heavy accents, or mix technical terms with everyday speech. In Frankfurt, this often matters for international teams and customer-facing systems. The best specialists design the pipeline to detect language shifts and keep the output consistent.
A ASR specialist can deliver a prototype, an evaluation report, an integration plan, improved vocabularies, or a production-ready transcription workflow. They may also add review queues, confidence thresholds, and monitoring so the system stays reliable. Good deliverables are tied to a real business workflow, not just a model demo.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Automatic Speech Recognition in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 852 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Automatic Speech Recognition in their recent projects, 100% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 67% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Automatic Speech Recognition in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.5 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Automatic Speech Recognition in their recent projects are German (100%), English (100%), and French (50%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Automatic Speech Recognition in their recent projects are Banking and Finance (100%), Information Technology (100%), and Telecommunication (100%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Automatic Speech Recognition in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (100%), and Quality Assurance (100%).
Main locations of FRATCH Experts, who have recently used Automatic Speech Recognition
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