AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
AI
46 long way since the solution employed and made famous by Stephen Hawking , who was fond of its robotic quality . Nowadays , realistic synthesised speech is all around us , whether it ' s coming from an Alexa smart speaker , or Apple ’ s digital assistant Siri . The fact that a UN report has deemed that the gendering of AI assistants is perpetuating sexist stereotypes is , perversely , in some ways proof that such machines can successfully masquerade as anthropomorphic beings thanks to the quality of their speech .
Amazon and others , however , are continuing to refine speech synthesis technology , transitioning Alexa from the unit-selection method , which strings small pre-recorded sounds together , to a neural-network based model capable of generating speech entirely independently .
AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION
ASR denotes technologies capable of processing human speech and turning it into text . One of the biggest draws of ASR is its ability to improve access to services – whether that ’ s in combination with translation ,
DECEMBER 2019