While she was in business school at the University of Pennsylvania, Allie Miller told her professor that all she wanted to do was find work in artificial ...

Katrin Kirchhoff is the director of speech processing for Amazon Web Services, and her organization has a trio of papers at this year’s Interspeech ...

In April, our research team at Amazon open-sourced our PECOS framework for extreme multilabel ranking (XMR), which is the general problem of classifying an ...

In June, Alexa announced a new feature called Reading Sidekick, which helps kids grow into confident readers by taking turns reading with Alexa, while Alexa ...

On August 26, Yang Liu, Amazon principal applied scientist, joined Jeff Blankenburg, principal Alexa evangelist, on Alexa & Friends to discuss her work ...

Amazon Halo, a membership dedicated to helping customers improve their individual health and wellness, includes a feature called Body which helps customers ...

Editor's note: This challenge is closed to new entries.The potential applications and promise of quantum technology are vast, and one of the most promising ...

In his 2020 shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos, executive chair of Amazon’s board of directors, shared that more than 200 million people around the world have a ...

Historically, Alexa’s automatic-speech-recognition models, which convert speech to text, have run in the cloud. But in recent years, we’ve been working to ...

In July 2021, Amazon notified applicants that they were recipients of the Spring 2021 Amazon Research Awards, a program that provides unrestricted funds and ...

Language-related machine learning applications have made great strides in recent years, thanks in part to masked language models such as BERT: during ...

In recent years, most commercial automatic-speech-recognition (ASR) systems have begun moving from hybrid systems — with separate acoustic models, ...