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 …

Some people believe that we are on the verge of a "revolution in voice search". Is this true or an exaggeration? Let's look at the latest statistics ...