Voice and Language Tech

Posted Oct 20, 2022 | Views 433

# Speech Recognition

# Alexa

# Kingfisher Labs

SPEAKER

Catherine Breslin

Founder @ Kingfisher Labs

Catherine is a machine learning scientist and consultant based in Cambridge UK, and the founder of Kingfisher Labs consulting. Since completing her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 2008, Catherine has commercial and academic experience in automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, and human-computer dialogue systems, having previously worked at Cambridge University, Toshiba Research, Amazon Alexa, and Cobalt Speech. Catherine has been excited by the application of research to real-world problems involving speech and language at scale.

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SUMMARY

Back in the day, Speech Recognition was its own thing. It's a very different flavor of Data Science. You could not use a lot of the tools. It wouldn't cross over to this type of machine learning.

Now, with the advancements, Speech Recognition and Machine Learning are coming in together. It's interesting to hear right from someone with a Ph.D. level working with some of the biggest companies in the world doing it. The fact that something like Alexa is lots of models back to back and just fathom the complexity of that is quite cool!

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