Category: Artificial Intelligence

Earlier this week, AWS announced the availability of Model Server for Apache MXNet, an open source component built on top of Apache MXNet for serving deep learning models. Apache MXNet is a fast and scalable training and inference framework with an easy-to-use, concise API for machine learning. With Model Server for Apache MXNet, engineers are […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Facebook and Microsoft are pleased to announce that the Open Neural Network Exchange (ONNX) format is production ready. ONNX is an open standard format for deep learning models that enables interoperability between deep learning frameworks such as Apache MXNet, Caffe2, Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, and PyTorch. ONNX 1.0 enables users to […]

Haptik is India’s first personal-assistant app. Users can use the app to plan travel, check in for flights, book taxis, and set reminders. And of all the different features, the most important and frequently used is the Reminders feature. People use Haptik to set wake-up calls, set up reminders to drink water, call people at different times, send greetings to others for different occasions, and much more. Through the reminders feature, users will receive notifications on the app along with a phone call at a requested time, relating the reminder message. In this post, we will cover how we use machine learning and text-to-speech (TTS) to set reminders for users – to call them at the given time to remind them of their tasks. We will cover how Amazon Polly helped us make personalized calls to our users and helped us scale our reminders feature to millions of users.

Today AWS announced contributions to the milestone 1.0 release of the Apache MXNet deep learning engine and the introduction of a new model serving capability for MXNet. These new capabilities (1) simplify training and deploying deep learning models, (2) enable implementation of cutting-edge performance enhancements, and (3) provide easy interoperability between deep learning frameworks. In […]

Based in Australia, Whooshkaa is a creative audio-on-demand podcast platform that helps publishers and advertisers reach their audiences. We’re always trying new products and techniques, and combining them to pioneer new solutions for our customers. The Amazon Polly Text-To-Speech (TTS) feature is a great example of this. Already, we have top-tier publishers, sporting bodies, and Australia’s biggest telecommunications company using Amazon Polly to augment their established delivery methods.

AWS DeepLens provides a great opportunity to learn new technologies, such as deep learning and Internet of Things (IoT), as well as to build innovative systems that can solve real-world problems. The device and service comes with a set of predefined projects that make it easy to hit the ground running. It is designed as […]

AWS DeepLens is a deep-learning-enabled developer toolkit with a video camera. It enables you to develop machine learning skills using hands-on computer vision tutorials, pre-built models and allows you to extend them. Examples of pre-built models include object detection to recognize and detect different objects in your room such as TV monitors, people and bottles, […]

AWS DeepLens is a deep learning enabled developer toolkit with a video camera. It enables you to develop machine learning skills using hands-on computer vision tutorials, pre-built models and allows you to extend them. This blog post explains how to extend the local functionality of DeepLens with cloud functionality using the AWS IoT Rule Engine […]

In this blog post we demonstrate how to run distributed offline inference on large datasets using Apache MXNet (incubating) and Apache Spark on Amazon EMR. We explain how offline inference is useful, why it is challenging, and how you can leverage MXNet and Spark on Amazon EMR to overcome these challenges. Distributed inference on large […]

Security of your AWS account is paramount. Staying up to date with any security-related events in your AWS account is important. There are various ways to get alerts- via email or SMS, however in this blog post I’m going to show you how to get a voice alert on your phone using Amazon AI services like Amazon Polly and any cloud-based communications platform like Twilio.