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Alexa, the origin story with Jeff Adams

Oct 28, 2019
53:40

Jeff Adams was the founding manager of the Alexa speech group; the team that made Alexa listen and talk. Jeff joins us to share the origin story of Alexa: where it come from and how it was created, and why the device was called 'Echo'.


Jeff also explains the details behind the three core parts of speech recognition: lexicons, acoustic modelling and language modelling, how the Doppler became the Echo and about his company Cobalt Speech.


Links

www.cobaltspeech.com

info@cobaltspeech.com

http://www.cobaltspeech.com/coblog


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