Former IBM Research AI Scientist, Dr. Zoltán Tüske, to Join AppTek

McLEAN, Va., Aug. 3, 2021 — AppTek, a company focused on artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automatic speech recognition (ASR), neural machine translation (NMT), text-to-speech (TTS) and natural language processing / understanding (NLP/U) technologies, today announced the appointment of Dr. Zoltán Tüske as Senior Research Scientist for the company’s ASR technologies.   In this role, […]

Mellanox 25G/100G Ethernet Speeds Speech Recognition at iFLYTEK

Today Mellanox announced that one of China’s leading intelligent speech and language technologies’ companies, iFLYTEK, has chosen Mellanox’s end-to-end 25G and 100G Ethernet solutions based on ConnectX adapters and Spectrum switches for their next generation machine learning center. The partnership between Mellanox and iFLYTEK will enable iFLYTEK to achieve a high speech recognition rate of 97 percent.

Accelerating Machine Learning with Open Source Warp-CTC

Today Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI Lab (SVAIL) released Warp-CTC open source software for the machine learning community. Warp-CTC is an implementation of the #‎CTC algorithm for #‎CPUs and NVIDIA #‎GPUs. “According to SVAIL, Warp-CTC is 10-400x faster than current implementations. It makes end-to-end deep learning easier and faster so researchers can make progress more rapidly.”

Video: Why is HPC so Important to AI?

In this video from the SF Big Analytics Meetup, Bryan Catanzaro from Baidu presents: Why is HPC so important to AI? “We built Deep Speech because we saw the opportunity to re-conceive speech recognition in light of the new capabilities afforded by Deep Learning, to take advantage of even larger datasets to solve even harder problems.”