{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Practical AI","title":"25 years of speech technology innovation","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2561,"description":"To say that Jeff Adams is a trailblazer when it comes to speech technology is an understatement. Along with many other notable accomplishments, his team at Amazon developed the Echo, Dash, and Fire TV changing our perception of how we could interact with devices in our home. Jeff now leads Cobalt Speech and Language, and he was kind enough to join us for a discussion about human computer interaction, multimodal AI tasks, the history of language modeling, and AI for social good.\n\nSponsors:\nO'Reilly Media – Learn by doing — Python, data, AI, machine learning, Kubernetes, Docker, and more. Just open your browser and dive in. Learn more and keep your teams’ skills sharp at oreilly.com/changelog\nSnowplow Analytics – The behavioral data management platform powering your data journey. Capture and process high-quality behavioral data from all your platforms and products and deliver that data to your cloud destination of choice. Get started and experience Snowplow data for yourself at snowplowanalytics.com\nChangelog++ – You love our content and you want to take it to the next level by showing your support. We’ll take you closer to the metal with no ads, extended episodes, outtakes, bonus content, a deep discount in our merch store (soon), and more to come. Let’s do this! \nFeaturing:\nJeff Adams – LinkedIn, X\nChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X\nDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X\nShow Notes:\nCobalt Speech and Language\nBuilding Blocks of Speech Technology\nArticle: “BYU students, creator of Alexa develop software to preserve Cambodian stories”\nPrevious episode with Catherine Breslin (previously with Cobalt)\nUpcoming Events: \nRegister for upcoming webinars here!","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Ox7ZlyiQOhdDa4Qy1MnJH5WFoksAetrzb40Jo1pePFs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMTZi/ZWJmNWIwNDdmYTcw/NGJjMTExZjNjZmYy/M2ZjNS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}