Review: IBM’s Watson Can Learn a lot from Marchex Speech Analytics
Marchex taps a goldmine of call data to derive customer intent and agent performance.
Expect Labs upgrades its MindMeld API for building smart apps
Expect Labs has revamped its MindMeld artificial intelligence API to support new languages, more devices and better speech recognition. The company is trying to power a new generation of apps that build on what Siri started.
DARPA is working on its own deep-learning project for natural-language processing
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, is building a set of technologies to help it better understand human language so it can analyze speech and text sources and alert analysts of potentially useful information.
Let’s build a semantic web by creating a Wikipedia for relevancy
The relevancy-defining, edge-weighting algorithms of Google’s Knowledge Graph, Facebook’s Open Graph and Gravity’s Interest Ontology are closely guarded company secrets. Imagine if that data was available to everyone — it would be as disruptive as Amazon Web Services. The internet would be a better place.
Xbox One voice search: Powered by deep learning
You didn’t think all the research Microsoft has done around deep learning was just for show, did you? The company’s deep learning models are now powering voice commands on the Xbox One platform, thanks to a direct connection to Bing.