Apple Gets Siri-ous About Its Speech Recognition

All aboard the deep learning train! Deep Learning is an umbrella term given to a set of machine learning algorithms that are usually derived from neural networks. Neural networks are computation models inspired from the human brain, which uses abstractions to better represent data, even if that sounds counter-intuitive. This may sound dull to a layman, but every major company is using it today to bolster their speech recognition applications and vision tasks. Facebook's #-Link-Snipped-#, Microsoft's #-Link-Snipped-# and Google's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Brain" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Google Brain</a> are all champions of the magic beans that are Deep Learning algorithms. Apple though, up until now used Nuance's voice recognition technology as backend for Siri. But sources report that this is about to change and things are in motion already. Apple is putting together its own dedicated team for speech recognition and artificial intelligence researchers believe neural networks have finally won Apple's favor.


Pundits predict the upgrade may take up to six months to arrive in the consumer market. Meanwhile, Siri will continue to fine-tune itself with new song-recognition features and an “always-on” mode.

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