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Cracking the real world ‘cocktail party problem’ in voice AI with Ken Sutton and Hamid Nawab, Yobe

Aug 25, 2022
01:00:48

Ever wondered why you in-car voice assistant never hears what you say? Ever caught yourself shouting into your headphones on a busy road, trying to wake up your assistant? One of the most challenging parts of voice AI is picking out voices in noisy environments.


You can retrain speech recognition models using acoustic modelling and invest in beamforming microphones, but that might not be enough. Today, we meet the company that has cracked voice recognition in extremely noisy environments.


Yobe co-founder and CEO, Ken Sutton, and Hamid Nawab, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, joins us to share more on how he and his team have cracked the ‘cocktail party problem’.


Visit https://yobeinc.com


Up your CX maturity in this free workshop with yours truly and Cognigy. Find out more: https://vux.world/cognigy


Find out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20% on tickets with the code VUX20




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