speechduh

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by speechduh 11y ago
For comparison, google offers competitive fresh-out-of-top-tier NLP Ph.D.s ~150k cash + 50k /yr bonus.
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by speechduh 11y ago
I saw a great talk about this @ SIAM data mining by Dave Madigan, for http://omop.org/ Basically, they took a TON of demographic research in the health sciences, explored all possible hyperparameter tunings, and found that
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by speechduh 11y ago
Far field speech recognition is _really_ hard. You can't just throw any random set of mic / speaker into a tube and expect it to work. The echo is almost exclusively mic / speaker, in a very specific configuration. There&#x27
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by speechduh 11y ago
I tend to think computer literacy is the wrong approach. I think the right approach looks like "interfaces that don't require literacy" (one of the reasons why I think human-quality NLU for command & control systems are g
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by speechduh 11y ago
So, for anyone not aware: Schmidhuber is _obsessed_ with this. He wrote an enormous literature review of deep learning [0] basically because he felt that people weren't crediting ideas enough. This isn't a one-off essay, for him,
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by speechduh 11y ago
When you have that much information, the chances for spurious conclusions are also endless.
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by speechduh 11y ago
IVONA is text to speech only.
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by speechduh 11y ago
state of the art is still very much using WFSTs and DNNHMMs. IBM and Google are still beating baidu.
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by speechduh 11y ago
Even if the speech-to-text doesn't, the natural language understanding does.
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by speechduh 11y ago
That particular stuff is actually pretty typical. I have a textbook that shows similar results on Shakespeare using N-grams from years ago.
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by speechduh 11y ago
I do think it's fair to call it out, though. Articles in second or third tier journals deserve higher levels of scrutiny. I'd rather see this replicated a couple of times before acting on it.
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by speechduh 11y ago
As you yourself said, the claim is "qualitatively" different, not "quantitatively" different. If you think about what qualitatively means, I really have no idea what you're trying to say. "Just" being &quo
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by speechduh 11y ago
+1. Brother was (fresh out of college) employee 20 at a company that IPO'd > $1 billion, and he got about $150k out of his options from 3 years of work. You have to get lucky to find a company IPOing enough to make you a millionaire
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by speechduh 12y ago
Uhm, yes, duh. Isn't this common knowledge? How do people think speech recognition systems are trained? What's more upsetting is that this person is so uninformed about speech systems that they think this is weird, AND they have a