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Podcast: The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Episode: Delivering Neural Speech Services at Scale with Li Jiang
Description: Today we’re joined by Li Jiang, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft working on Azure Speech. In our conversation with Li, we discuss his journey across 27 years at Microsoft, where he’s worked on, among other things, audio and speech recognition technologies. We explore his thoughts on the advancements in speech recognition over the past few years, the challenges, and advantages, of using either end-to-end or hybrid models. We also discuss the trade-offs between delivering accuracy or quality and the kind of runtime characteristics that you require as a servic...