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How we built the HeyMercedes Voice Assistant with Mihai Antonescu
How we built the HeyMercedes Voice Assistant with Mihai Antonescu 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Mihai Antonescu, Group Product Manager, Experience AI at Mercedes-Benz is one of the brains behind the stand-out Hey Mercedes voice assistant. read more

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Voice commerce: the state of play with James Poulter
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The latest customer behavioural trends on voice commerce from the Vixen Labs Voice Commerce Report. read more

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Creating independent voice assistants with Kavita Reddi and Sirish Reddi
Creating independent voice assistants with Kavita Reddi and Sirish Reddi 1800 1200 Kane Simms

Discussing the Voxta platform, voice in India and the value of independent voice assistants. read more

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How voice AI is disrupting industries with Mike Zagorsek
How voice AI is disrupting industries with Mike Zagorsek 1800 1200 Kane Simms

SoundHound Inc is enabling brands like Mercedes and Mastercard to cause disruption with voice AI. Find out how with VP Product Marketing, Mike Zagorsek. read more

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You might not have a choice about voice
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It’s ironic, but you might not have a choice about voice.

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When will voice AI disrupt your industry?
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With new technology comes new potential for disruption.

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Hacking speech systems
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Yesterday I posted about how speech recognition systems, voice assistants, have trouble with different accents like Irish accents, Welsh accents, Scottish accents, Northern accents and how hard it is to actually train those systems based on accents because a different accent is essentially like a different language. read more

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Why Alexa doesn’t understand your accent
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A new study by Uswitch has found that voice assistants struggle with Irish accents… and Welsh, and Scottish. read more

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What is automatic speech recognition and how does it work? With Catherine Breslin
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Dive deep into one of the core technologies that underpins the voice assistants you know and love, with one of the world’s leading speech recognition experts, Catherine Breslin.



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What is speech recognition and how does it work?

Automatics speech recognition (also known as ASR) is a suite of technology that takes audio signals containing speech, analysis it and converts it into text so that it can be read and understood by humans and machines. It’s the technology that makes voice assistants like Amazon Alexa able to understand what a user says.

There’s obviously a whole lot more to it that than, though. So, in today’s episode, we’re speaking to one of the most knowledgable and experienced speech recognition minds the world has to offer, Catherine Breslin, about just exactly what’s going on under the hood of automatic speech recognition technology and how it actually works.

Catherine Breslin studied speech recognition at Cambridge, before working on speech recognition systems at Toshiba and eventually on the Amazon Alexa speech recognition team where she met the Godfather of Alexa, Jeff Adams. Catherine then joined Jeff at Cobalt Speech where she currently creates bespoke speech recognition systems and voice assistants for organisations.

In this episode, you’ll learn how one of the fundamental voice technologies works, from beginning to end. This will give you a rounded understanding of automatic speech recognition technology so that, when you’re working on voice applications and conversational interfaces, you’ll at least know how it’s working and then be able to vet speech recognition systems appropriately.

Links

Visit Cobalt Speech

Read the Cobalt Speech blog

Follow Catherine Breslin on Twitter

Listen to Jeff Adams, Founder of Cobalt discuss the Alexa origin story

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Alternative voice assistants to Alexa and Google Assistant
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I’m in Amsterdam today with JP and Jen who are over there looking rather nonchalant not joining me on the escalator, but in Amsterdam in Holland Google, Sorry, Alexa doesn’t exist.

The echo doesn’t exist.

It’s Google Assistant predominantly and I got me thinking about what would you do if those big commercial Voice Assistant platforms just didn’t exist?

Would you do without Google Assistant Siri Alexa,
are there other voice Technologies other platforms that you would use instead and for what use cases?

So JP had mentioned SoundHound for use in the car, you know looking at things like restaurants and navigation.

I think that this one is working nice.

I was talking about Snips before it was acquired being used in home electronic devices like coffee machines
and things like that.

So what other examples Do you have of other Technologies outside of the big commercial Technologies and what are the use cases?

What are they being used for? Let us know?

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