The Arabic version of Alexa launched in December 2021, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and like all new Alexa languages, it ...
Voice agents like Alexa often have a variety of different speech synthesizers, which differ in attributes such as expressivity, personality, language, and ...
Amazon researchers have more than 50 papers at this year’s International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). A plurality of ...
The automatic conversion of text to speech is crucial to Alexa: it’s how Alexa communicates with customers. The models developed by the Amazon ...
Of Amazon’s more than 40 papers at this year’s Interspeech, automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech account for about half. But the others cover a ...
When Penny Karanasou presented her first paper at Interspeech, in 2010, she was a PhD student in computer science, writing a thesis on automatic speech ...
Nowadays, speech technology permeates our everyday life. From smart-home devices to in-car navigation systems to chatting with friends on the other side of ...
Interspeech, the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken-language processing, took place last week in ...
Ariadna Sanchez grew up steeped in the world of music performance and orchestra, learning to play violin at age 5 and setting her sights on a life in music. ...
A quick guide to Amazon’s innovative work at the IEEE Spoken Language Technology Workshop (SLT), which begins next week:Accelerator-aware training for ...