Amazon today announced that ten teams from around the globe have been selected to participate in the Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge Year 2, a university challenge focused on developing multimodal (voice and vision) conversational agents that help customers complete tasks that require multiple steps and decisions. The Alexa Prize is a flagship industry-academia collaboration dedicated … Read more
In June 2022, Amazon Re: Mars, the company’s personal event, exploring progress and practical applications in machine learning, automation, robotics and space (Mars), place in Las Vegas. The event gathered thought leaders and technical experts who build the future of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and included keynote speakers, innovations spotlights and a series of … Read more
Alexa Arena is a new bodily-made-ai frame that has been developed to push the boundaries of people and robot interaction. It offers an interactive, user-centric framework for the creation of robotic tasks involving the navigation of multiroom-simulated environment and manipulation of all types of real-time objects. In a gam-like setting, users can interact with virtual … Read more
“Alexa, where’s the closest coffee shop?” In vehicles with Alexa, drivers can ask questions like that – while watching the road and hands of the steering wheel. Amazon’s cloud -based voice assistant technology collaborates with the car’s navigation system to find out where the nearest coffee shop is and guide drivers to it. Alexa’s local … Read more
In November, Amazon announced that nine teams from around the world, we chose to participate in Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge 5 (SGC 5), a university challenge that focused on promoting interaction between people and computer and open dialogue conversation. As of today, all nine teams have moved on to the semi -finals based on … Read more
Amazon today Annoudéd that a team from the University of Michigan has won Alexa Prize Simbot Challenge. Simbot Challenge’s goal is to promote the development of the next generation’s virtual assistants who help people carry out tasks in the real world by learning continuously. Teams competing in the interactive university challenge developed virtual robots in … Read more
Put your hand up if you enjoy using your TV remote to write the name of the show you want to watch next. Who doesn’t love to mix the highlighted box across the screen and carefully select each letter in turn? And let’s not forget the joy of accidentally choosing a wrong letter. Such a … Read more
In the last five years, speech synthesis technology has moved to all-neural models that allow the separate elements of speech-proodi, accent, language and speaker identity (voice) to be controlled separately. It is the technology that allowed the Amazon-Text-to-Tale group to teach the feminine-sounding, English-language Alexa voice to speak in perfectly highlight us Spanish and the … Read more
Amazon changed how people act, revolutionized cloud computing and developed popular technologies like Alexa. The company is now bringing its innovation and expertise in vocal -activated artificial intelligence to education. Take the Alexa Skills Inventor program. The program, which focuses on science, technology, technology and math (STEM), uses Alexa to help students learn about AI. … Read more
In January 2023, Alexa launched in language learning experience in Spain, helping Spanish speakers learn beginning level English. The experience was developed in collaboration with Vaughan, the leading English-language provider in Spain, and the beloved to provide an immersive English learning program with a special focus on evaluation of pronunciation. We are now expanding this … Read more