ADDO AI CEO Ayesha Khanna (left) appears on a panel hosted by SG Innovate. ELSA -- which is an acronym for English Language Speech Assistant -- learns from speech data that's fed into the system, then uses its understanding of native speech patterns to help users correct their pronunciations. By developing a crowdsourced prediction engine, Scry is using machine learning to help people and companies make better predictions about how events will play out. SigTuple modified a standard medical microscope to allow for digital scanning and sample analysis through AI.

The same app that Van used to reduce her native Vietnamese accent could help an American moving to Vietnam learn a local Vietnamese accent. "Growing up in Vietnam, speaking English is a big advantage. Elsa users are primarily from the non-English speaking world but there are also users from say, Atlanta, as well as other native English speakers, Van said. Elsa Speak users are primarily professionals and students, but love is also a chief motivator.