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Minh D.

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Project Manager / Business Analyst / Application Manager

Bad Vilbel
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

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Jochen H.

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Managing Director

Eschborn
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

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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)

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt have 21 years of professional experience on average. It is 1 year more than in Germany, where the average stands at 20 years.

Position duration

2.5 years (Germany: 2.1 years)

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt stay in a single position for 2.5 years on average. It is 0.4 years more than in Germany, where the average stands at 2.1 years.

Positions per freelancer

21 (Germany: 13)

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt have completed 21 positions on average over the course of their careers. It is 8 more than in Germany, where the average stands at 13.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Quality Assurance

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Product Development, and Quality Assurance.

Top industries

Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Telecommunication

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt are most in demand in Banking and Finance, Information Technology, and Telecommunication.

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Legal

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt earn their certifications most often in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Legal.

Bachelor's degree or higher

100% (Germany: 95%)

100% of Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt hold at least a Bachelor's degree. It is 5% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 95%.

Master's degree or higher

67% (Germany: 65%)

67% of Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt hold at least a Master's degree. It is 2% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 65%.

Certifications per freelancer

2

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt hold 2 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

100% (Germany: 95%)

100% of Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt speak two or more languages. It is 5% higher than in Germany, where the rate stands at 95%.

Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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One of the Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt charges less than €800 per day.
One of the Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt charges between €800 and €840 per day.
One of the Automatic Speech Recognition experts in Frankfurt charges €960 or more per day.
<€800 €800-​840 €960+

The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Frankfurt are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.

Average rates of experts in Frankfurt using Automatic Speech Recognition

Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.

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Daily rate avg. 852 €
Germany avg. 737 €

The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.

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Median rate 800 €
Germany median 800 €

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.

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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

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

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