Computerized question-answering systems usually take one of two approaches. Either they do a text search and try to infer the semantic relationships between ...

This year, at the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Workshop on Natural-Language Processing for Conversational AI, my colleagues and I won one of ...

Alexa currently has more than 90,000 skills, or abilities contributed by third-party developers — the Uber ride-sharing skill, the Jeopardy! trivia game ...

Neural networks are responsible for most recent advances in artificial intelligence, including many of Alexa’s latest capabilities. But neural networks tend ...

Alexa currently has more than 90,000 skills, or abilities contributed by third-party developers — the NPR skill, the Find My Phone skill, the Jeopardy! ...

A text-to-speech system, which converts written text into synthesized speech, is what allows Alexa to respond verbally to requests or commands. Through a ...

An automatic-speech-recognition system — such as Alexa’s — converts speech into text, and one of its key components is its language model. Given a sequence ...

Earlier this year, at Amazon’s re:MARS conference, Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad unveiled Alexa Conversations, a new service that allows Alexa skill ...

Earlier this year, we reported a speech recognition system trained on a million hours of data, a feat possible through semi-supervised learning, in which ...

At next week’s Interspeech, the largest conference on the science and technology of spoken-language processing, Alexa researchers have 16 papers, which span ...