An Open-Source Challenger to Popular Virtual Assistants

By Stanford HAI - 2020-11-25

Description

Stanford researchers hope their open virtual assistant Almond can increase competition and better protect privacy.

Summary

An engineer tests a voice assistant called "Xiaoyi".
Now Stanford researchers have created a tool that automatically synthesizes sample conversations.
Because voice-based platforms are so difficult to build and train, however, Google and Amazon have what amounts to a duopoly in smart-speakers.
It sounds like a lot of work, but we can automate the process because there’s a general model for transactional conversations,” Lam says.
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Topics

NLP (0.23)
Backend (0.16)
Management (0.1)

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