Changelog Master Feed Speech recognition to say it just right (Practical AI #82)
Mar 23, 2020
49:14
Catherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into virtual assistants (like Alexa) and is used in other non-assistant contexts (like transcription and captioning). Along the way, she teaches us how to assemble a lexicon, acoustic model, and language model to bring speech recognition to life.
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Featuring:
- Catherine Breslin – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
- Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
- Catherine Breslin - Google Scholar
- Cobalt Speech and Language
- Business Insider: The 100 coolest people in UK tech - Catherine Breslin
- The Female Lead - Catherine Breslin
- Silicon Republic: 15 architects building the data-driven future
- Stylist: Meet the woman who teaches Amazon Alexa how to understand humans
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