Database research and development is heavily influenced by benchmarks, such as the industry-standard TPC-H and TPC-DS for analytical systems. However, these 20-year-old benchmarks capture neither how...
As the start of this year’s Interspeech draws near, “generative AI” has become a watchword in both the machine learning community and the popular press, where...
In the last five years, speech synthesis technology has moved to all-neural models, which allow the separate elements of speech — prosody, accent, language, and speaker...
In June 2022, Amazon re:MARS, the company’s in-person event that explores advancements and practical applications within machine learning, automation, robotics, and space (MARS), took place in...
A quick guide to Amazon’s innovative work at the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), which begins next week: Accelerator-aware training for transducer-based speech recognitionSuhaila Shakiah,...
Ariadna Sanchez grew up steeped in the world of music performance and orchestra, learning to play violin at age 5 and setting her sights on a...
Interspeech, the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken-language processing, took place last week in Incheon, Korea, with Amazon as...
Nowadays, speech technology permeates our everyday life. From smart-home devices to in-car navigation systems to chatting with friends on the other side of the planet, countless...
When Penny Karanasou presented her first paper at Interspeech, in 2010, she was a PhD student in computer science, writing a thesis on automatic speech recognition....
Of Amazon’s more than 40 papers at this year’s Interspeech, automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech account for about half. But the others cover a range of...