AI Helps Protect Endangered Elephants
According to the U.N., up to 100 elephants are slaughtered every day in Africa by poachers taking part in the illegal ivory trad … Read more
Tag Archives: Speech & Audio Processing
AI Can Help Anyone Become a Beatbox Champion
To help up-and-coming musicians create the best beats for their song, developers from a Japanese-based AI startup developed a deep learning system called Neural Beatboxer that can convert everyday sounds into hours of automatically compiled rhythms … Read more
AI Can Play It By Ear
Researchers from Facebook developed a deep learning system that can replicate the music it hears and play it back as if it were Mozart, Beethoven, or Bac … Read more
Startup Builds AI System To Transcribe Meetings
Voicera, a San Francisco Bay Area startup, recently announced $20 million funding for their GPU-based deep learning system that can now fully transcribe meetings and put together highlights … Read more
Microsoft Sets New Speech Recognition Record
Researchers at Microsoft announced they reached a 5.1% error rate which is a new milestone in reaching human parity for recognizing words in a conversation as well as professional human transcribers … Read more
GPU Technology Conference 2017: Call for Submissions Now Open
Take part in the world’s top GPU developer event May 8 -11, 2017 in Silicon Valley where artificial intelligence, virtual reality and autonomous vehicles will take center stage. GTC 2017 provides developers and thought leaders with the opportunity to share their work with thousands of the world’s brightest minds … Read more
Share Your Science: Accelerating Microsoft Cortana and Skype Translator
Alexey Kamenev, Software Engineer at Microsoft Research talks about their open-source Computational Network Toolkit (CNTK) for deep learning, which describes neural networks as a series of computational steps via a directed gra … Read more
New GPU Computing Model for Artificial Intelligence
Yann LeCun, Director of Facebook AI Research, invited NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang to speak at “The Future of AI” symposium at NYU, where industry leaders discussed the state of AI and its continued advancement. Jen-Hsun published a blog on his talk that covers … Read more
GPU-Trained System Understands Movies
Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Tech, MIT and University of Toronto published MovieQA, a dataset that contains 7702 reasoning questions and answers from 294 movies. Their innovative dataset and accuracy metrics provide a well-defined challenge for question/answer machine learning algorithms … Read more
How GPUs are Revolutionizing Machine Learning
NVIDIA announced that Facebook will accelerate its next-generation computing system with the NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform which will enable them to drive a broad range of machine learning applications … Read more