Alexa, the origin story with Jeff Adams

Jeff Adams was the founding manager of the Alexa speech group; the team that made Alexa listen and talk. Jeff joins us to share the origin story of Alexa: where it come from and how it was created, and why the device was called 'Echo'.Jeff also explains the details behind the three core parts of speech recognition: lexicons, acoustic modelling and language modelling, how the Doppler became the Echo and about his company Cobalt [email protected]://www.cobaltspeech.com/coblog Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.