Category: Artificial Intelligence

In the Create a Question and Answer Bot with Amazon Lex and Amazon Alexa blog post, we showed you how you could create a QnABot (pronounced “Q and A Bot”) for a situation in which your users have questions and you have answers. Now, what if this situation were reversed? What if you could ask […]

Yesterday we announced the integration of AWS DeepLens with Amazon Kinesis Video Streams, allowing you to easily and securely stream a video feed from AWS DeepLens to Amazon Kinesis Video Streams for analytics, machine learning and other processing. To help you understand the solution that integrates AWS DeepLens and Kinesis Video Streams, we’ll recap the […]

In the United States, with the 2018 midterm elections approaching, people are looking for more information about the voting process. This blog post explores how we can apply machine learning (ML) to better integrate science into the task of understanding the electorate. Typically for machine learning applications, clear use cases are derived from labelled data. […]

VidMob is a social video creation platform that marketers of all sizes can use to develop personalized advertising communications at scale. VidMob uses machine learning (ML) to power its SaaS application. This application uses metadata extraction and sentiment analysis to provide marketers with actionable insights into which creative assets resonate with their intended audience, and […]

We’re the AWS Marketing Data Science team. We use advanced analytical and machine learning (ML) techniques so we can share insights into business problems across the AWS customer lifecycle, such as ML-driven scoring of sales leads, ML-based targeting segments, and econometric models for downstream impact measurement. Within Amazon, each team operates independently and owns the […]

Today we are launching the training job cloning feature on the Amazon SageMaker console, which makes it much easier for you to create training jobs based on existing ones. When you use Amazon SageMaker, it’s common to run multiple training jobs using different training sets and identical configuration. It’s also common to adjust a specific […]

The AWS Deep Learning AMIs for Ubuntu and Amazon Linux now come pre-installed and fully configured with Horovod, the popular open source distributed training framework to scale TensorFlow training on multiple GPUs. This is an update to the optimized build of TensorFlow 1.8 that we launched in early May. This custom build of TensorFlow 1.8 […]

Amazon Polly now offers a choice of a second female French voice, Léa, in addition to the current female voice, Céline. Amazon Polly also has a French male voice, Mathieu. Léa is a warm and natural-sounding voice with Parisian accent. Listen to the spoken introduction from Léa. Listen now Voiced by Amazon Polly With the addition […]

Today consumers are encouraged to express their satisfaction or frustration with a company or product through social media, blogs, and review platforms. Sentiment analysis can help companies better understand their customers’ opinions and needs and make more informed business decisions. Amazon released a dataset to the public with over 130 million product reviews in multiple […]

At the beginning of this year, we launched an Amazon Polly plugin for WordPress with the help of our partner, WP Engine. This plugin enabled creators/bloggers who publish their posts or sites using WordPress to easily add Text-to-Speech capabilities and convert their web content into high-quality audio formats. Since then, we’ve improved the plugin by […]