Designing Jibo’s automatic speech recognition, with Roberto Pieraccini

by Jibo

14 October 2015

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Roberto_Pierraccini_Jibo Finding 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.

tags: ASR, automatic speech recognition, c-Research-Innovation, cx-Business-Finance, Jibo, Natural Language Processing, NLP, Roberto Pieraccini, social robotics

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