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Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini


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14 October 2015



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Roberto_Pierraccini_JiboFinding the right approach to automatic speech recognition (ASR) has been a critical step in Jibo’s design: get it right and the experience will be great; get it wrong, and it could really take away from the interactions Jibo’s owners have with him. In this interview, Jibo’s Head of Advanced Conversational Technologies Roberto Pieraccini talks about the direction the company’s engineering team has taken with ASR.

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Jibo The world's first family robot.
Jibo The world's first family robot.





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