Alexa, the origin story with Jeff Adams
VUX World
English - October 28, 2019 05:32 - 53 minutes - 123 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsTechnology Business Entrepreneurship conversational ai bots digital transformation automation artificial intelligence generative ai llms large language models chatgpt business transformation Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jeff Adams was the founding manager of the Alexa speech group; the team that made Alexa listen and talk. Jeff joins us to share the origin story of Alexa: where it come from and how it was created, and why the device was called 'Echo'.
Jeff also explains the details behind the three core parts of speech recognition: lexicons, acoustic modelling and language modelling, how the Doppler became the Echo and about his company Cobalt Speech.
http://www.cobaltspeech.com/coblog
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