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Alexa, the origin story with Jeff Adams
Manage episode 245136977 series 2093893
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.
Links
http://www.cobaltspeech.com/coblog
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
321 episodes
Manage episode 245136977 series 2093893
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.
Links
http://www.cobaltspeech.com/coblog
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
321 episodes
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