Layer Trajectory BLSTM: New evolution enhances speech recognition technology
Speech is a signal that can enable natural interaction between human and machine. In order to facilitate this exchange, machines have to be able to recognize what a human has spoken, both the words and the context in which those…
Bring your phones to the conference table: creating ad hoc microphone arrays from personal devices
| Takuya Yoshioka, Dimitrios Dimitriadis, Andreas Stolcke, and William Hinthorn
Recent advances in machine learning and signal processing, as well as the availability of massive computing power, have resulted in dramatic and steady improvement in speech recognition accuracy. Voice interfaces to digital devices have become more and more common. Lectures…
Awards | Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
danah boyd receives EFF Barlow/Pioneer award
danah boyd, Principal Researcher, received a 2019 Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Barlow/Pioneer award (opens in new tab) in recognition of her leading role as a Trailblazing Technology Scholar. danah boyd has consistently been one of the world’s smartest researchers, thinkers, and…
In the news | Harvard Business Review
How AI in the Exam Room Could Reduce Physician Burnout
Turnaround time for Ambient clinical intelligence to complete reports in the EHR is 50 percent lower than anticipated.
Inside the Microsoft AI Residency Program with Dr. Brian Broll
In 2018, Microsoft launched the Microsoft AI Residency Program, a year-long, expanded research experience designed to give recent graduates in a variety of fields the opportunity to work alongside prominent researchers at MSR on cutting edge AI technologies to solve…
Awards | Microsoft News
A way to bring peace of mind — and sleep — to parents whose children suffer seizures wins Microsoft Hackathon
D’Angelo, a 21-year Microsoft employee, and colleagues around the world worked to finish building MirrorHR – an Epilepsy Research Kit for Kids - in July at The Garage's annual Global Hackathon and named this year’s grand prize winner for the…
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MIT Work of the Future | Mary L. Gray discusses “Ghost Work”, the workforce that drives large tech companies
Mary Gray talked about her book, Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass, in which she reported on the workforce that drives large technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Uber.
Project Everest: Advancing the science of program proof
| Nikhil Swamy
Project Everest is a multiyear collaborative effort focused on building a verified, secure communications stack designed to improve the security of HTTPS, a key internet safeguard. This post—about the proving methodology and verification tools of Project Everest—is the third in…