Speech recognition to say it just right

Catherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into virtual assistants (like Alexa) and is used in other non-assistant contexts (like transcription and captioning). Along the way, she teaches us how to assemble a lexicon, acoustic model, and language model to bring speech recognition to life.

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Featuring:

• Catherine Breslin – Website • , GitHub • , LinkedIn • , X • Chris Benson – Website • , GitHub • , LinkedIn • , X • Daniel Whitenack – Website • , GitHub • , X Show Notes:

Catherine Breslin - Google Scholar Cobalt Speech and Language Business Insider: The 100 coolest people in UK tech - Catherine Breslin The Female Lead - Catherine Breslin Silicon Republic: 15 architects building the data-driven future Stylist: Meet the woman who teaches Amazon Alexa how to understand humans

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