Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice

Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by edwhitesell on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:18AM (#15090788)

It's probably safe to assume a lot of that was due to some/most of Siri being licensed from Nuance initially. I mean, who wants to talk about a new product, which most people think is brand new and entirely innovative, just to say "Oh yeah, we paid someone else to work with us to create it."

Not that there's anything wrong with that and it certainly seems like Apple has been investing in-house pretty heavily in recent years for Siri improvement.

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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by blackkettle on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:20PM (#15093712)

I think it has more to do with the fact that they are finally starting to allow their researchers to publish. They were platinum sponsors at INTERSPEECH 2017 this week, and actually published a paper there. I'm pretty sure that was the first time _ever_ despite their recruiters showing up every year.

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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by gok on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:31PM (#15095221)

3 papers at Interspeech 2017, actually :)

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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by tinus_hn on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:23PM (#15094580)

The part licensed from Nuance is the speech recognition, not the voice.

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Re:Deep Learning for Siri’s Voice by edwhitesell on Thursday August 24, 2017 @07:04PM (#15094832)

Yes, the post I replied to was talking about NLP.

That said, in my limited experience, organizations doing NLP also have something to offer by way of TTS too.

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