Most existing online speech recognition solutions support only recurrent neural networks (RNNs). For wav2letter@anywhere, Facebook uses a fully convolutional acoustic model instead, which results in a 3x throughput improvement on certain inference models and state-of-the-art performance on ...

Cloud services in one form or another (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) have finally ceased to be perceived as a curiosity by most of the network audience. This is one of the many reasons why not only large businesses but also medium-sized …

Voice search is a speech recognition technology that allows you to convert a user's voice query into a text form, which is then transmitted to the standard database search system. The applications most clearly associated with ...

The first electronic speech synthesizer was invented by Homer Dudley, a Bell associate, in 1937. The device is called the Voder. And the first to get involved in speech recognition using electronics is the Soviet physicist Lev Myasnikov - he …

VAD (English Voice Activity Detection), as well as Silence Suppression, briefly means the detection of voice activity in the input acoustic signal to separate active speech from background noise or silence. In the field of telecommunication systems, the most expensive …