With a free-spirited and self-motivated personality, these qualities led Shila into the rabbit hole to explore the curiosity of a life without sound or music on different frequencies. She marked her first foray into Deaf community by learning Singapore Sign Language. In 2016, Shila was part of the team that started the provision of formalised speech-to-text interpretation service. Being a deep generalist, Shila excels in transcribing for a wide variety of subject matter. With her wealth of experience in speech-to-text services in diverse settings and knowledge in accessibility for the Deaf, Shila has built up comprehensive and robust short-hand strategies for this green field of speech-to-text interpretation. Her professional vision is to build up a collaborative community to develop shared resources to advance accessibility for the Deaf and Blind communities, cultivate meaningful connections and uplift one another as a community together.
Outside of professional accessibility work, Shila is deeply passionate about natural medicine, ancient folklore and culture, plants, healing and nature, and continues to apply her creativity and keenness for knowledge, as seen in her professional work, to these personal interests.
