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 ...
At next week’s Interspeech, the largest conference on the science and technology of spoken-language processing, Alexa researchers have 16 papers, which span ...
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 ...
Jonathan and Kathy, an Orlando-based couple, were out visiting a neighbor a few days before Christmas 2020 when Jonathan got an unusual alert from their ...
Many tasks in natural-language processing and information retrieval involve pairwise comparisons of sentences — for example, sentence similarity detection, ...
Think back to what you were doing the summer after your freshman year in college — for many of us, that likely didn’t include working on a project that ...
In recent years, deep neural networks have been responsible for most top-performing AI systems. In particular, natural-language processing (NLP) ...
Like many other machine learning applications, neural machine translation (NMT) benefits from overparameterized deep neural models — models so large that ...
Automatic-speech-recognition (ASR) models, which convert speech to text in voice agents, typically have two stages. The first stage involves a deep neural ...