In his 2020 shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon’s board of directors, shared that more than 200 million people around the world have a ...

Historically, Alexa’s automatic-speech-recognition models, which convert speech to text, have run in the cloud. But in recent years, we’ve been working to ...

In July 2021, Amazon notified applicants that they were recipients of the Spring 2021 Amazon Research Awards, a program that provides unrestricted funds and ...

Language-related machine learning applications have made great strides in recent years, thanks in part to masked language models such as BERT: during ...

In recent years, most commercial automatic-speech-recognition (ASR) systems have begun moving from hybrid systems — with separate acoustic models, ...

How Amazon intern Michael Saxon uses his experience with automatic speech recognition models to help Alexa answer complex queries. Source link

Many marketers insist their work is an art. But at Amazon, it’s art backed by science. And one group supporting that science is the Customer Behavior ...

For delivery drivers, finding the doorstep where a package should be dropped off can be surprisingly hard. House numbers can be obscured by foliage, or they ...

Ask any roboticist — they’ll tell you that, when it comes to robots, manipulating items can be technically challenging. In simply lifting a package, these ...

Recently, AI models that can engage in open-domain dialogue have made a lot of progress — the top finishers in the Alexa Prize challenge, for instance.But ...

Editor’s note: This article is adapted from a keynote presentation Bharathan Balaji , an Amazon senior research scientist within the company’s Devices ...

On November 10, at the fourth Fact Extraction and Verification workshop (FEVER), we will be announcing the winners of the third fact verification challenge ...