OpenAI Presents GPT-3, a 175 Billion Parameters Language Model
OpenAI researchers recently released a paper describing the development of GPT-3, a state-of-the-art language model made up of 175 billion parameters. … Read more
Tag Archives: Speech & Audio Processing
Netflix Builds Proof-of-Concept AI Model to Simplify Subtitles for Translation
To help localize subtitles from English to other languages, such as Russian, Spanish, or Portuguese, Netflix developed a proof-of-concept AI model that can automatically simplify and translate subtitles to multiple languages. … Read more
New AI Technologies Introduced at GTC 2020 Keynote
At GTC 2020 NVIDIA unveiled new state-of-the-art conversational AI frameworks and recommender systems. They include NVIDIA Jarvis, an application framework for multimodal conversational AI services that runs deep learning models under 300 milliseconds vs 25 seconds on CPUs. Also introduced, NVIDIA Merlin, a deep recommender framework that reduces training time from days to minutes on GPUs … Read more
NVIDIA Research Unveils Flowtron, an Expressive and Natural Speech Synthesis Model
A team of researchers from the NVIDIA Applied Deep Learning Research group developed a state-of-the-art model that generates more realistic expressions and provides better user control than previously published models. … Read more
OpenAI’s Jukebox Produces Music with Lyrics from Scratch
This week, OpenAI released Jukebox, a neural network that generates music with rudimentary singing, in a variety of genres and artist styles. … Read more
Amazon Trains Alexa on GPUs to Better Handle Complex Queries
Amazon researchers, in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts Amherst, developed a deep learning-based, sequence-to-sequence model that can better handle simple and complex queries. … Read more
Developer Blog: How to Deploy Real-Time Text-to-Speech Applications on GPUs Using TensorRT
In this developer blog post, we’ll walk through how to convert a PyTorch model through ONNX intermediate representation to TensorRT 7 to speed up inference in one of the parts of Conversational AI – Speech Synthesis. … Read more
Nuance Accelerates Conversational AI Training by 50%
Using Automatic Mixed Precision running on TensorFlow, Nuance has realized a 50% speedup in ASR and NLP model training on NVIDIA Volta GPUs without loss of accuracy, helping to reduce their time to market. … Read more
NVIDIA Announces TensorRT 6; Breaks 10 millisecond barrier for BERT-Large
Today, NVIDIA released TensorRT 6 which includes new capabilities that dramatically accelerate conversational AI applications, speech recognition, 3D image segmentation for medical applications, as well as image-based applications in industrial automation. … Read more
Google Develops ASR System To Help People with Speech Impairments
Google researchers have developed a deep learning-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that aims to improve communications for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) … Read more