Speech Processing: How to Wreck a Nice Peach

Alexa, Siri and Cortana are among a number of voice-enabled digital assistants that can not only speak to us but understand us. Sci-fi films had talking computers many years ago. Why has it taken so long to crack the speech processing puzzle? Why do we find speech processing so effortless and machines find it so daunting? And what progress can we expect in the next few years? A lecture by Richard Harvey, IT Livery Company Professor of IT 27 November 2018 The transcript and downloadable ver...