Introducing Task-Oriented Multiparty Conversational AI: Inviting AI to the Party

by flaksmanConversational AI, Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, StartupsPosted on Comments are Disabled

The term “conversational AI” has been around for some time. There are dozens of definitions all over the internet. But let me refresh your memory with a definition from NVIDIA’s website. Conversational AI is the application of machine learning to develop language-based apps that allow humans to interact naturally with devices, machines, and computers using …

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End-to-End Speech Recognition: Part 1 – Neural Networks for Executives (I Mean Dummies)

by flaksmanCode, Speech RecognitionPosted on Comments are Disabled

When I originally contemplated the subject of my next blog post, I thought it might be interesting to provide a thorough explanation of the latest and greatest speech recognition algorithms, often referred to as End-to-End Speech Recognition, Deep Speech, or Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC).   However, as I began to research the topic I quickly discovered …

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Microsoft’s 5.1% Word Error Rate (WER) Announcement is Complete and Utter Bullshit

by flaksmanSpeech RecognitionPosted on One Comment

I apologize! That title was actually generated by Microsoft’s speech recognition system incorrectly transcribing “Microsoft’s 5.1% Word Error Rate (WER) Announcement is Completely Misleading”.   Okay, that was snarky, but I promise Microsoft compelled me to write that.  You see in the course of editing my previous post Microsoft had to go and put out a …

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