About

SciTech Challenge is HKSTP’s annual competition open for innovators to pitch and demonstrate their ideas, products and solutions to various industry end-users.

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In 2021, the theme of SciTech Challenge is “Technology Enabled by Voice” with Cantonese as the language. With voice-assistants, users can now speak and interact with their appliances like mobile, home appliances, gaming, social networking, or even more. There are endless opportunities!

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Open Group

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• Contestants can be enrolled either as an individual or a team.

Student Group

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• Contestants can be enrolled either as an individual or a team.

• Contestants must be full-time students.

• Open for all students from universities, community colleges or secondary schools.

Set of resources provided for participants

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• ~​100 hours Cantonese voice data, on Banking, Finance Service and Investment (BFSI) domain

• Automatic speech recognition (ASR) API

• Workshops

• Mentorship (for the top 16 teams only)