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

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

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

Amazon today announced that nine teams from around the globe have been selected to participate in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4 (SGC 4), a ...

Every interaction with Alexa begins with the wake word: usually “Alexa”, but sometimes “Amazon”, “Echo”, or “Computer” — or, now, “Hey Samuel”. Only after ...

Amazon’s goal for Alexa is that customers should find interacting with her as natural as interacting with another human being. Toward that end, in ...

At this year’s Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), Julia Hirschberg, an Amazon Scholar and a professor of computer ...

Question answering through reading comprehension is a popular task in natural-language processing. It’s a task many people know from standardized tests: a ...

More and more, interactions with Alexa involve multiturn dialogues, which Alexa uses to fill out the details of a request or coordinate multiple ...

Since being first announced in 2014, Alexa has continuously become more natural, knowledgeable, conversational, context-aware, and capable of self-learning. ...