What happens when you ask a virtual assistant to do something?
If you say… “Hey, computer, play me some music” and then it starts playing you some music, there’s a number of things that have to have happened for that to come true.
If you say… “Hey, computer, play me some music” and then it starts playing you some music, there’s a number of things that have to have happened for that to come true.
Catherine Breslin of Cobalt joins Daniel and Chris to do a deep dive on speech recognition. She also discusses how the technology is integrated into virtual assistants (like Alexa) and is used in other non-assistant contexts (like transcription and captioning). Along the way, she teaches us how to assemble a lexicon, acoustic model, and language model to bring speech recognition to life.