The Czech Republic captured four gold medals at the 2021 summer Olympics in Japan, quite a feat for the Central European country with a population of just ...

Earlier today, the Alquist team from Czech Technical University learned it had been awarded the $500,000 first-prize purse in the Alexa Prize SocialBot ...

In June, Alexa announced a new feature called Reading Sidekick, which helps kids grow into confident readers by taking turns reading with Alexa, while Alexa ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

In June, one of us (Prem) wrote a blog post for Amazon Science arguing that Alexa, and more generally, the field of AI, is entering a new “age of self” in ...

Amazon today announced it is launching a new Alexa Prize SimBot Challenge, a competition focused on helping advance development of next-generation virtual ...

Notebook computers, tablets, and smartphones get the tech headlines, but these are largely mature products at this point. Smaller, more personal devices are ...