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Category: Alexa
Majority of Alexa Now Running on Faster, More Cost-Effective Amazon EC2 Inf1 Instances
Today, we are announcing that the Amazon Alexa team has migrated the vast majority of their GPU-based machine learning inference workloads to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia. This resulted in 25% lower end-to-end latency, and 30% lower cost compared to GPU-based instances for Alexa’s text-to-speech workloads. The lower […]
Read MoreRegistration for Amazon re:MARS 2020 is OPEN ?
Editor’s Note: We have been closely monitoring the situation with COVID-19, and after much consideration, we have made the decision to cancel re:MARS 2020. Our top priority is the well-being of our employees, customers, partners, and event attendees. Over the course of the coming weeks, we will explore other ways to engage the community. To […]
Read MoreLearn about AWS Services & Solutions – April AWS Online Tech Talks
Join us this April to learn about AWS services and solutions. The AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks, led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, feature technical deep dives, live demonstrations, customer examples, and Q&A with AWS experts. Register […]
Read MoreChat with the Alexa Prize Finalists Today
The Alexa Prize is an annual competition designed to spur academic research and development in the field of conversational artificial intelligence. This year, students are working to build socialbots that can engage in a fun, high-quality conversation on popular societal topics for up to 20 minutes. In order to succeed at this task, the teams […]
Read MoreAnnouncing Alexa for Business: Using Amazon Alexa’s Voice Enabled Devices for Workplaces
There are only a few things more integrated into my day-to-day life than Alexa. I use my Echo device and the enabled Alexa Skills for turning on lights in my home, checking video from my Echo Show to see who is ringing my doorbell, keeping track of my extensive to-do list on a weekly basis, […]
Read MorePollexy – Building a Special Needs Voice Assistant with Amazon Polly and Raspberry Pi
April is Autism Awareness month and about 1 in 68 children in the U.S. have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (CDC 2014). In this post from Troy Larson, a Sr. Devops Cloud Architect here at AWS, you get an introduction to a project he has been working on to help his son Calvin. […]
Read MoreFirst Annual Alexa Prize – $2.5 Million to Advance Conversational AI
Every evening we ask Alexa for the time of sunset, subtract 10 minutes to account for the Olympic Mountains on the horizon, and plan our walk accordingly! My family and my friends love the Amazon Echo in our kitchen! In the past week we have asked for jokes, inquired about the time of the impending […]
Read MoreNew – Alexa Skills Kit, Alexa Voice Service, Alexa Fund
Amazon Echo is a new type of device designed around your voice. Echo connects to Alexa, a cloud-based voice service powered (of course) by AWS. You can ask Alexa to provide information, answer questions, play music, read the news, and get results or answers instantly. When you are in the same room as an Amazon […]
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