030- Jeff Adams - Building Alexa and What Comes Next

Guests: Jeff Adams, CEO & Founder of Cobalt Speech and Language 

Topic: Building Alexa and What Comes Next for Conversational AI

Jeff Adams joins Dave for this episode of the podcast, walking Dave through the major hurdles that Jeff's team at Amazon had to solve when they were tasked with bringing Alexa to life. Jeff founded the Alexa Speech Group and led a team of speech & language scientists from 2011 - 2014 at Amazon building the automatic speech recognition (ASR) system and natural language understanding (NLU) engine that Alexa runs on. 

Jeff provides insight into how his team solved wake-word detection, ASR, NLU, and text-to-speech synthesis, and then shares what's on the horizon for conversational AI more broadly. 

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