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 ...

During a conversation between a customer and a dialogue system like Alexa’s, the system must not only understand what the customer is saying currently but ...

Today I am happy to announce the public release of the Topical Chat Dataset, a text-based collection of more than 235,000 utterances (over 4,700,000 words) ...

The first step in training a neural network to solve a problem is usually the selection of an architecture: a specification of the number of computational ...

Amazon today announced the public release of a new data set that will help speech scientists address the difficult problem of separating speech signals in ...