Abstract “The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” — Archilochus. Statistical and machine-learning methods have allowed us to create classifiers, taggers and information extractors that can answer predetermined questions about[…]
Abstract SpeechWorks has spent the last six years building technology and services that allow the deployment of large-scale telephone-based spoken dialog systems. These deployments require a combination of core speech technologies, development methods focused on[…]
Abstract How does a listener know what a talker just said? A fundamental perceptual component in acts of spoken communication is the analysis of sensory samples of speech. However, perception of the phonetic properties in[…]
Abstract Much is known about how the brain encodes sensory information, but why it has evolved to use the particular coding strategies it does have been the subject of long-standing interest and debate. The responses[…]
