Customer interactions with Alexa are constantly growing more complex, and on the Alexa science team, we strive to stay ahead of the curve by continuously ...

Last year, Amazon announced the beta release of Alexa Guard, a new service that lets customers who are leaving the house instruct their Echo devices to ...

One of the ways that we’re always trying to improve Alexa’s performance is by teaching her to ignore speech that isn’t intended for her.At this year’s ...

Neural networks are responsible for most recent advances in artificial intelligence, including many of Alexa’s latest capabilities. But neural networks tend ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of the Amazon Echo, so in a talk I gave yesterday at the Web Summit in Lisbon, I looked at how far Alexa has ...

This year at the IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU) Workshop, Alexa researchers have two papers about training machine learning ...