by kseniaskriptchenko | May 26, 2022 | AI, News, HLT
Machine learning requires large quantities of labeled training data (for more insights, read more in this post). That means, in order to reach acceptable performance, current speech recognition systems training demands thousands of hours of transcribed speech. For...
by kseniaskriptchenko | Mar 1, 2022 | AI, Diversity, News, HLT
Diversity is becoming the new norm according to the German Zukunftsinstitut in its megatrend survey. Megatrends are said to last for at least a decade which means – the topic will stick with us into the 2030s. But let’s start with the basics: what is...
by kseniaskriptchenko | Jul 20, 2021 | News, HLT
Making “sense” of speech with Curriculum Learning Methods Humans need about two decades to be trained as fully functional adults of our society. Quite some time and still pretty fast in contrast to where we are, if we want to copy the learning curve from a human to a...
by kseniaskriptchenko | May 14, 2021 | BIAS, Diversity, News, HLT
Imagine being trapped in a dark room with light switch sensors not acknowledging your presence and the door refusing to open, just because you’re invisible to it. Sounds like a major inconvenience or the beginning of the low-budget horror movie? Sadly, it’s a...
