Wuchtel, Karottenballett and Coloniakübel: A Viennese company uses artificial intelligence to process dialect expressions. Now the software for speech processing is to conquer the international market.
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Hans Peter Siebenhaar
An old workbench serves as a reception desk, next to it is a table tennis table with red bats, and of course there is also a couch on which an employee is currently making a phone call. At first glance, the headquarters of the software company Deep Search fulfill the clichés of a start-up. But behind the company, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to process language, is not a young IT nerd in a hoodie, but a 60-year-old veteran of the industry, dressed conservatively, in a shirt.