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Simone Wills is a highly skilled Speech Recognition Researcher at Radboud University, contributing to the Centre for Language and Speech Technology on projects aimed at developing speech technology applications for cognitive decline detection and educational support. Simone also holds dual roles at Saigen as a Linguist and Speech Scientist, focusing on updating phonetic dictionaries and developing automatic speech recognition systems for under-resourced South African languages. Prior experience includes a position as a Research Assistant at the University of Cape Town, where valuable sociophonetic data analytics and transcription work were performed, in addition to tutoring undergraduate linguistics courses. Simone holds a Master of Science in Speech and Language Processing from The University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Linguistics and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, Spanish, Business French, and International Relations from the University of Cape Town.