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Nine university teams selected to compete in the Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 4
Fourth challenge features four new teams.Read More
How Amazon scientists are helping the Scout delivery device find a path to success
Navigation, perception, simulation — three key components to giving Amazon Scout true independence.Read More
More-natural prosody for synthesized speech
Prosody transfer technique addresses the problem of “source speaker leakage”, while prosody selection model better matches prosody to semantic content.Read More
Successes, challenges and opportunities for speech technology in conversational agents
Watch the replay of Shehzad Mevawalla’s Interspeech 2020 keynote talk.Read More
Alexa scientists discuss relevant work in the field of conversational AI
Watch the replay of the Interspeech 2020 industry forum session.Read More
Amazon Consumer Science Summit goes virtual
COVID-19-induced trend toward virtual conferences may change how science is conducted.Read More
Amazon’s new research on automatic speech recognition
Interspeech papers include novel approaches to speaker identification and the training of end-to-end speech recognition models.Read More
How Alexa scientists are advancing speech science
Watch as four Amazon Alexa scientists talk about current state, new developments, and recent announcements surrounding advancements in Alexa speech technologies.Read More
New sound detection approach improves on state of the art
Knowledge distillation technique for shrinking neural networks yields relative performance increases of up to 122%.Read More