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

Most of the major advances in artificial intelligence in the past decade, in both industry and academia, have been the result of supervised deep learning, ...

The International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), which starts today, is now in its 45th year, and according to Google ...

Follow-up Mode makes interacting with Alexa more natural. With Follow-up Mode enabled, a customer can ask, “Alexa, what’s the weather?”, then follow up by ...

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

A year ago, Amazon and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $20 million collaboration to fund academic research on fairness in AI over a ...

The annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) is, according to Google Scholar’s rankings, the preeminent conference on ...

Kathleen McKeown is the Henry and Gertrude Rothschild professor of computer science at Columbia University, and the founding director of the school’s Data ...

The Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge is a competition for university students dedicated to accelerating the field of conversational AI. The competition ...

Today we announced the public beta launch of Alexa Conversations dialogue management. Alexa developers can now leverage a state-of-the-art dialogue manager ...