Fano builds speech recognition and NLP engines optimized for mixed-language environments across Asia and the Middle East—Cantonese, Mandarin, regional English variants, Thai, Arabic, and Southeast Asian languages. The tech stack spans Python, Java, Go, and Rust with infrastructure built on Kubernetes, Kafka, and PostgreSQL, plus emerging LLM capabilities (Claude integration). Active hiring is concentrated in engineering and product, with concurrent projects in ASR model training, LLM evaluation, and real-time audio services—indicating a push toward production-grade multilingual AI pipelines.
Notable leadership hires: Director of Product
Fano is a speech and NLP technology company founded in 2015 as a University of Hong Kong spin-off, now backed by Horizons Ventures, Gobi Partners, and Openspace Ventures. The company targets enterprises in customer service, compliance, and regulatory workflows across Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. The product portfolio spans automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech, voice biometrics, voicebots, and chatbots, with specialist accuracy in non-English and code-mixed language models. The 51–200 employee organization operates from Hong Kong with hiring focused in China.
Fano supports Cantonese, Mandarin, English (Indian, Singaporean, Filipino variants), Thai, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Malaysia, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese. The company specializes in mixed-language recognition for Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and Middle East markets.
Core languages include Python, Java, TypeScript, Go, C/C++, and Rust. Infrastructure uses Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, and gRPC. Recent integrations include Claude for LLM capabilities and WebRTC/SIP for real-time audio handling.
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