Mr Kumar works for Desicrew. Founded in 2005 it was a pioneer in cloud farming.<\/p>\n
“We realised that instead of forcing people to migrate to cities in search of jobs, we could bring jobs to where people already live,” says Mannivannan J K, the chief executive of Desicrew .<\/p>\n
“For too long, opportunities have been concentrated in cities, leaving rural youth behind. Our mission has always been to create world-class careers closer to home, while proving that quality work can be delivered from anywhere.”<\/p>\n
Desicrew does all sorts of outsourced work including software testing for start-up firms, building datasets to train AI, and moderating content. <\/p>\n
At the moment 30 to 40% of its work is AI related, “but very soon, it will grow to 75 to 100%,” says Mr J K.<\/p>\n
Much of that work is transcription – turning audio to text.<\/p>\n
“Machines understand text far better,” he explains.<\/p>\n
“For AI to work naturally, machines must be trained to understand variations in how people speak. That’s why transcription is such a crucial step, it forms the foundation for machines to comprehend and respond across languages, dialects, and contexts.”<\/p>\n
Doing such work in a smaller town is not a disadvantage, Mr J K says.<\/p>\n
“People often assume rural means underdeveloped, but our centres mirror urban IT hubs in every way \u2013 secure data access, reliable connectivity, and uninterrupted power. The only difference is geography. “<\/p>\n
Around 70% of his workforce are women: “For many, this is their first salaried job, and the impact on their families is transformative \u2013 from financial security to education for their children,” says Mr J K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Kumar works for Desicrew. Founded in 2005 it was a pioneer in cloud farming. “We realised that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-198820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}