Scalable language model adaptation for spoken dialogue systems

no code implementations • 11 Dec 2018 • Ankur Gandhe, Ariya Rastrow, Bjorn Hoffmeister

New application intents and interaction types are released for these systems over time, imposing challenges to adapt the LMs since the existing training data is no longer sufficient to model the future user interactions.

Language Modelling speech-recognition +2

Just ASK: Building an Architecture for Extensible Self-Service Spoken Language Understanding

no code implementations • 1 Nov 2017 • Anjishnu Kumar, Arpit Gupta, Julian Chan, Sam Tucker, Bjorn Hoffmeister, Markus Dreyer, Stanislav Peshterliev, Ankur Gandhe, Denis Filiminov, Ariya Rastrow, Christian Monson, Agnika Kumar

This paper presents the design of the machine learning architecture that underlies the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) a large scale Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) Software Development Kit (SDK) that enables developers to extend the capabilities of Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa.

Spoken Language Understanding