A quick guide to Amazon’s 40-plus papers on ICASSP

A quick guide to Amazon's 40-plus papers on ICASSP

As usual at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Treatment (ICASSP), a plurality of Amazon’s accepted papers concentrates on automatic speech recognition – this year, a special emphasis on personal speech recognition. The subjects for detection of acoustic event, keyword spotlight and signal processing are also well represented. But are also usual, some … Read more

ICASSP: Michael I. Jordan’s “Alternative view of AI”

ICASSP: Michael I. Jordan's "Alternative view of AI"

Intelligence is notoriously difficult to define, but when most people (included computer scientists) think about it, they interpret it on the model of human intelligence: an information processing capacity that allows an auto agent to act on the world. Michael I. Jordan, Pehong Chen separates professor of both computer science and statistics department at UC … Read more

The science behind Echo -Frames

The science behind Echo -Frames

As the team behind Amazon’s Echo frames began to improve the next generation of their product, they had to create a delicate balance. Customer feedback on previous versions of the Smart Audio glasses centered on three elements: winding of battery life, multiple style settings and improved sound quality. Echo frames have custom-built speech treatment technology … Read more