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For comparison, google offers competitive fresh-out-of-top-tier NLP Ph.D.s ~150k cash + 50k /yr bonus.

I saw a great talk about this @ SIAM data mining by Dave Madigan, for http://omop.org/ Basically, they took a TON of demographic research in the health sciences, explored all possi…

Far field speech recognition is _really_ hard. You can't just throw any random set of mic / speaker into a tube and expect it to work. The echo is almost exclusively mic / speaker,…

I tend to think computer literacy is the wrong approach. I think the right approach looks like "interfaces that don't require literacy" (one of the reasons why I think human-qualit…

So, for anyone not aware: Schmidhuber is _obsessed_ with this. He wrote an enormous literature review of deep learning [0] basically because he felt that people weren't crediting i…

When you have that much information, the chances for spurious conclusions are also endless.

IVONA is text to speech only.

state of the art is still very much using WFSTs and DNNHMMs. IBM and Google are still beating baidu.

Even if the speech-to-text doesn't, the natural language understanding does.

That particular stuff is actually pretty typical. I have a textbook that shows similar results on Shakespeare using N-grams from years ago.

I do think it's fair to call it out, though. Articles in second or third tier journals deserve higher levels of scrutiny. I'd rather see this replicated a couple of times before ac…

As you yourself said, the claim is "qualitatively" different, not "quantitatively" different. If you think about what qualitatively means, I really have no idea what you're trying …

+1. Brother was (fresh out of college) employee 20 at a company that IPO'd > $1 billion, and he got about $150k out of his options from 3 years of work. You have to get lucky to fi…

Uhm, yes, duh. Isn't this common knowledge? How do people think speech recognition systems are trained? What's more upsetting is that this person is so uninformed about speech syst…