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Y Combinator Startup Podcast
#25 - Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation
Aug 11, 2017
30:50
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Adam Coates, Director of Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab, discusses the lab's work in speech-to-text and text-to-speech projects, scaling speech recognition for better performance, the potential of speech recognition as a product, concerns of faking voices, the impact of AI on jobs, and the process of finding and nurturing experts in the AI field.
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- Baidu achieved superhuman performance in Mandarin speech recognition by scaling up the use of neural networks, investing in computational resources, and collecting massive amounts of data.
- Baidu is focused on creating immersive AI products with speech and text-to-speech (TTS) interfaces, aiming to make TTS as good as human-level performance and exploring the potential for a voice-first keyboard.
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Adam Coats and Baidu's Focus on AI Technologies
Adam Coats, the director of Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab, discusses the company's focus on developing AI technologies that will impact at least 100 million people. Baidu, China's largest search engine, has transformed itself from a PC search leader to a mobile revolution player and is now increasingly becoming an AI company. The Silicon Valley AI Lab, one of Baidu's four research labs, was founded to bridge the gap between rapidly advancing deep learning and AI research and its translation into practical business applications.
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