Filed by DHC Acquisition Corp. pursuant to
Rule 425 under the Securities Act of 1933
and deemed filed pursuant to Rule 14a-12
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Subject Company: DHC Acquisition Corp.
Commission File No.: 001-40130
Dr. Hanseok Ko Elected a Fellow of the
International Speech Communication Association
Highly Decorated Academic Achieves One of ISCAs Most Prestigious Honors for an Individual
in the Field of Speech Science and Technology
JACKSON, WY October 3, 2023 Brand Engagement Network (BEN), a leading provider of personalized customer
engagement AI technology and human-like AI avatars, today announced that Dr. Hanseok Ko, BEN Co-CTO & Co-Founder Lead AI Researcher has been elected a
Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association. The recognition is a key milestone in Dr. Kos highly decorated career as a scientist, artificial intelligence (AI) expert and academic and highlights his extensive
contributions to the field.
Over the past three decades, Dr. Ko has established himself as a leading expert in AI, signal processing, and spoken
language technology. Dr. Ko was credited as the main developer of the core audio/speech interface platform for Hyundai/Kia Motors and has authored/co-authored more than 700 papers in artificial
intelligence (deep learning) and signal processing areas. He is also the inventor of more than 70 patents (issued or pending) in the US and Korea.
Ive dedicated my entire career to studying and developing new technology that can perceive, understand, and generate speech/acoustic/image signals
which is critical to human-machine interaction, said Dr. Hanseok Ko, BEN Co-CTO & Co-Founder Lead AI Researcher. I believe AI is more
prevalent and advanced today than it has ever been, putting us in a unique position to innovate and develop new ways to take advantage of the technology. Its an honor to be elected a Fellow of the International Speech Communication Association
and I look forward to working with the organization that has given me so much support.
The International Speech Communication Association is an
organization to promote, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology. The association is aimed at all persons and institutions interested in fundamental
research and technological development that aims at describing, explaining and reproducing the various aspects of human communication by speech, that is, without assuming this enumeration to be exhaustive, phonetics, linguistics, computer speech
recognition and synthesis, speech compression, speaker recognition, aids to medical diagnosis of voice pathologies.
The recognition comes on the heels of
BENs announcement of its entry into a definitive agreement to agree to go public via a merger with DHC Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: DHCA). For more information about BEN and Dr. Kos AI research please visit: www.beninc.ai
About BEN
BEN (Brand Engagement Network) is a leading
provider of conversational AI technology and human-like AI avatars headquartered in Jackson, WY. BEN delivers highly personalized, multi-modal (text, voice, and vision) AI engagement, with a focus on industries where there is a massive workforce gap
and an