Speech recognition to say it just right

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.

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Featuring:

• Catherine Breslin – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Catherine Breslin - Google Scholar
• Cobalt Speech and Language
• Business Insider: The 100 coolest people in UK tech - Catherine Breslin
• The Female Lead - Catherine Breslin
• Silicon Republic: 15 architects building the data-driven future
• Stylist: Meet the woman who teaches Amazon Alexa how to understand humans

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Creators & Guests

Host

Chris Benson

Host

Daniel Whitenack

Guest

Catherine Breslin

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