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LeCun: Apple, Android, and Microsoft mobile speech recognition use deep learning

Yann LeCun · Yann Lecun, Facebook // Artificial Intelligence // Data Driven #32 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Dec 18, 2014 · at 15:27

Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook, discusses how deep learning had already become the standard for mobile speech recognition across major tech platforms by late 2014.

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“So probably many of you know that most You know, mobile speech recognition application search and stuff like that uses deep learning for the last two years. This is both for, you know, Apple, Android, Microsoft. All of those applications use deep learning for speech”

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