Deep Speech
product on 2 shows · 4 statements across 1 episodes · said 6 times in 1 episodes since 2017
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 6 
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Baidu's Deep Speech engine achieves superhuman accuracy on short queries
“The speech engine that we've built at Baidu called Deep Speech it's actually superhuman for these short queries.”
Baidu trains English speech AI on 10,000 to 20,000 audio hours
“Our English system uses like 10 to 20,000 hours of audio. The Mandarin systems are using even more for top end products.”
Deep learning and massive data eliminate hand-engineered speech recognition pipelines
“And in the past, it always looked like there was some fundamental problem that maybe we could never escape this need for these hand engineered representations. But it turns out that once you have enough data, all of those things go away.”
Voice AI latency of 200ms versus 100ms is clearly perceptible to users
“That the difference between 50 or a hundred milliseconds of latency and 200 milliseconds of latency is actually quite perceptible. And it really anything we can do to bring that down actually affects user experience quite a bit.”