Adam Furmanek (Amazon) – Challenges and evolution of Alexa Text-To-Speech | ML in PL 22
Challenges and evolution of Alexa Text-To-Speech by Adam Furmanek, Senior Software Engineer at Amazon. Amazon was one of the sponsors of ML in PL Conference 2022
It was quite a hike to deliver a first world-class voice assistant, but nowadays it is common to control computers with your voice. What about the future? What else is there in the world of Text-To-Speech? In this talk we are going to see what challenges Alexa TTS is facing now. We’ll go through the history of TTS, technical solutions, and then focus on what future brings. We’ll focus on both technical and business problems we’re solving now, and how these things will affect our lives.
Adam Furmanek is a Senior Software Engineer at Alexa. He works on the backend side of Alexa Text-To-Speech. He specializes in machine learning and large scale distributed systems. In his free time, he watches The Office and plays piano.
The talk was delivered during ML in PL Conference 2022 organized by a non-profit NGO called ML in PL Association.
ML in PL Association website: https://mlinpl.org/
ML in PL Conference 2022 website: https://conference2022.mlinpl.org/
ML In PL Conference 2023 website: https://conference2023.mlinpl.org/
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