Why do machines struggle to understand human speech while we find it so effortless?
In short: Richard Harvey explores the technical hurdles that kept talking computers in the realm of science fiction for decades. This lecture examines why speech processing remains a daunting challenge for machines and what advancements we can anticipate in the near future.
Recorded on November 27, 2018, at Gresham College, this lecture addresses the gap between human linguistic intuition and machine processing. While digital assistants like Siri, Alexa, and Cortana have become common, the underlying complexity of speech recognition has historically been difficult to solve.
Professor Richard Harvey, an expert in information technology and artificial intelligence, draws on his background in signal processing and acoustics to explain these mechanics. His work, which also spans artificial lip-reading, emphasizes the scientific challenges inherent in teaching machines to interpret human communication accurately.
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