Looking for AI based Speech Recognition expert

Hi, I’m a student and working on an academic project which is a speech recognition system. I intend to use machine learning so that my bot could generate answers on its own rather than relying on hard coded Q&A stuff. Being a student, I have a little knowledge and experience in this field and I’m seeking help from experts. There are a lot of people here who have experience in this field so I would request anyone reading this post to please guide me how to start this project with machine learning models. And any tutorials would be of great help for me. Anybody?
Thanks