far-field speech recognition

2 statements across 1 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 19, 2026 by Neil Zeghidour · across every show →

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Feb 19, 2026 bearish
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Zeghidour: Zero progress made on noisy multi-speaker understanding in 10 years
“In TTS, we see a lot of progress. For this kind of hard understanding problem, I hear people saying the exact same stuff as they did 10 years ago. Like, there was zero progress.”
Neil Zeghidour Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 56:03 Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
Feb 19, 2026 bearish
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Zeghidour: No AI team will solve noisy multi-speaker recognition within a year
“Well, I would say a frontier is I could like bet to every single speech team in the world that they don't solve it in the next year or so. It's a robot in the model in the factory, and there is a lot of noise from machines, and you have a lot of people talking…”
Neil Zeghidour Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 53:34 Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
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