Bandit problems are problems in which an agent interacting with the environment tries to simultaneously maximize some reward and learn how to maximize that ...

At this year’s Interspeech, the largest annual conference on speech-related technologies, Shehzad Mevawalla, the director of automatic speech recognition ...

Earlier this month, the German national newspaper WELT awarded its second “German AI Prize” to Bernhard Schölkopf, in recognition of his groundbreaking ...

Amazon was a Silver sponsor of the 2020 Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), which provides an international forum for presentation ...

Neha Rungta is a senior principal applied scientist in the Automated Reasoning Group with Amazon Web Services (AWS), working on formal verification ...

Sound detection is a popular application of today’s smart speakers. Alexa customers who activate Alexa Guard when they leave the house, for instance, ...

Alexa is the voice activated digital assistant powering devices like Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo ...

As the largest conference devoted to speech technologies, Interspeech has long been a showcase for the latest research on automatic speech recognition (ASR) ...

COVID-19 has caused massive disruption around the globe. That includes the myriad of science conferences held each year. With the pandemic now forcing the ...

Alexa is the voice activated digital assistant powering devices like Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo ...

Alexa is the voice activated digital assistant powering devices like Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Echo ...

At this year’s Interspeech, the Amazon text-to-speech team presented two new papers about controlling prosody — the rhythm, emphasis, melody, duration, and ...