Alexa currently has more than 90,000 skills, or abilities contributed by third-party developers — the Uber ride-sharing skill, the Jeopardy! trivia game ...
Alexa currently has more than 90,000 skills, or abilities contributed by third-party developers — the NPR skill, the Find My Phone skill, the Jeopardy! ...
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 ...
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, at Amazon’s re:MARS conference, Alexa head scientist Rohit Prasad unveiled Alexa Conversations, a new service that allows Alexa skill ...
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 ...
During a conversation between a customer and a dialogue system like Alexa’s, the system must not only understand what the customer is saying currently but ...
In 2017, when the journal IEEE Internet Computing was celebrating its 20th anniversary, its editorial board decided to identify the single paper from its ...
Editor's Note: The Alexa team recently introduced a new longform speaking style so Alexa sounds more natural when reading long pieces of content, like this ...