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Baidu Silicon Valley AI Lab | Sunnyvale, CA | Full-time | On-site | http://usa.baidu.com/careers/ The Silicon Valley AI Lab is Baidu's US-based research group, started a bit more t…

Thanks for the kind words, Brandon! Been a busy couple of months :)

Both Kaldi[1] and CMU Sphinx[2] are high-quality open source speech systems. I know for a fact that Kaldi includes support for DNN acoustic models (I'm less familiar with Sphinx). …

Mostly this, though it's not so black-and-white. The paper discusses results from a DNN-HMM system (Maas et al., using Kaldi) trained on 2k hours, and it does provide a small gener…

For a single utterance, it's fast enough that we can produce results in real time. Of course, building a production system for millions of users might require just a bit more engin…

Hi Jerome, those are great results! We got an email this morning from someone else on the Watson team pointing out that we didn't include the latest IBM number -- we'll be sure to …

As in many things, it's a combination of both. For example: - We wanted no more than one recurrent layer, as it's a big bottleneck to parallelization. - The recurrent layer should …

I should add that I had the opportunity to work on this project and am happy to answer questions.

Thought it best to post the arXiv link, but there's some press coverage as well: - https://gigaom.com/2014/12/18/baidu-claims-deep-learning-bre... - http://www.forbes.com/sites/rob…

Glad to hear it! I had a lot of fun coming back to campus. Good luck to you too! carl @ sift

The first two classes (106A and 106B) are very techinical, though I'd hesitate to let anyone who hadn't taken classes beyond them to work on a piece of software I had control over.…

It's not exactly paradise. Because classes are only ten weeks total (slightly less in spring), you can't exactly spend the first week or two shopping around without doing non-trivi…

I cannot understand why it is that so many obviously very intelligent people decide that we need another computer vision-based startup. Because the unfortunate truth is that comput…

Reusing exam/written homework problems is unquestionably lax, I'd agree, but I do not think that professors should be writing new programming assignments each year. I worked as an …