Paul Murphy at the 2015 Deep Learning Summit

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Earlier this fall, our CEO Paul Murphy spoke at Rework’s Deep Learning Summit in London where he gave an overview of how Deep Learning is being used in Speech. While it’s forward-looking into things that are still coming, some of it covers what we’re already doing now at Clarify. It’s a short talk, so check it out:

Deep Learning & Speech: Adaptation, the Next Frontier

The speech community is finally excited about deep learning, but we’re proceeding with caution. Adaptation is critical to understanding real-world speech data. We need to adapt to acoustics and language of course, but also to context. To date, DNNs have shown great promise, but their ability to adapt to the unexpected is still in question. This talk will look at where we are today, as well as the challenges still in front of us.