This moment has been a long time coming. The technology behind speech recognition has been in development for over half a century, going through several periods of intense promise — and disappointment. So what changed to make ASR viable in commercial applications? And what exactly could these systems accomplish, long before any of us had heard of... Continue Reading →

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a valuable operation to tackle sequence problems where timing is variable, like Speech and Handwriting recognition. Without CTC, you would need an aligned dataset, which in the case of Speech Recognition, would mean that every character of a transcription, would need to be aligned to its exact location in the... Continue Reading →