Neural networks are responsible for most recent advances in artificial intelligence, including many of Alexa’s latest capabilities. But neural networks tend ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Virtually all the images flying over the Internet are compressed to save bandwidth, and usually, the codecs — short for coder-decoder — that do the ...
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 ...
At Amazon, we always look to invent new technology for improving customer experience. One technology we have been working on at Alexa is on-device speech ...
In recent years, many of the best-performing models in the field of natural-language processing (NLP) have been built on top of BERT language models. ...
Packet loss is a big problem for real-time voice communication over the Internet. Everyone has been in the situation where the network is becoming ...
Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is the core technology of autonomous mobile robots. It involves simultaneously building a map of the robot’s ...
Pretrained language models (PLMs) like BERT, RoBERTa, and DeBERTa, when fine-tuned on task-specific data, have demonstrated exceptional performance across a ...