As Alexa expands into new countries, she usually has to be trained on new languages. But sometimes, she has to be re-trained on languages she’s already ...

Many of today’s most useful AI systems are multilabel classifiers: they map input data into multiple categories at once. An object recognizer, for instance, ...

Alexa currently has more than 90,000 skills, or abilities contributed by third-party developers — the Uber ride-sharing skill, the Jeopardy! trivia game ...

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 ...

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’s online shopping experience is available in a lot of different languages and a lot of different countries. But regardless of language or location, ...

Amazon has strong ties to the Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) conference, which starts next week in Houston. Amazon is a gold sponsor of the conference, ...

In an ideal world, finding a particular section of a video would be as simple as describing it in natural language — saying, for instance, “the person pours ...

Neural machine translation systems are often optimized to perform well for specific text genres or domains, such as newspaper articles, user manuals, or ...

Typically, when someone speaks to a voice agent like Alexa, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) model converts the speech to text. A ...