Dr. Catherine Breslin – a machine learning scientist, specialising in speech and language technology. Catherine has a distinguished academic background with a degree from Oxford and postgraduate qualifications from Cambridge. Her career has been about the application of speech and language research to real world problems. She’s worked for Toshiba and then onto Amazon, where she played a major role in developing Alexa there onto other platforms and she now works for Cobalt Speech.
I caught up with Catherine, where we got to discuss the future of voice technology and where it’s all going.
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Chapters
0:01 – Introduction
0:41 – Dr. Catherine Breslin Introduction
1:03 – Speech Recognition
2:08 – Voice Technology
4:54 – Voice Recognition
5:59 – Searching Audio
7:36 – Automation
8:02 – Alexa Skills
9:45 – Synthetic Voice
11:23 – Audiobooks
12:19 – Dialect Technology
13:19 – Amazon & Working On Alexa
14:31 – Automated Systems
16:40 – Automatic Speech Recognition
18:35 – Noise Robust Speech Recognition
19:36 – Voice Print
21:21 – Imitation In Voice Technology
22:51 – Close