Baidu trains English speech AI on 10,000 to 20,000 audio hours
Adam Coates · Baidu's AI Lab Director on Advancing Speech Recognition and Simulation · Y Combinator · Aug 11, 2017 · at 5:48
Adam Coates, Director of Baidu's Silicon Valley AI Lab, details the training data volumes required for Baidu's speech recognition models.
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“Our English system uses like 10 to 20,000 hours of audio. The Mandarin systems are using even more for top end products.”
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