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Enable the visually impaired to hear documents using Amazon Textract and Amazon Polly

At the 2021 AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, we demoed Read For Me at the AWS Builders Fair—a website that helps the visually impaired hear documents. For better quality, view the video here. Adaptive technology and accessibility features are often expensive, if they’re available at all. Audio books help the visually impaired read. Audio […]

Bundesliga Match Fact Set Piece Threat: Evaluating team performance in set pieces on AWS

The importance of set pieces in football (or soccer in the US) has been on the rise in recent years: now more than one quarter of all goals are scored via set pieces. Free kicks and corners generally create the most promising situations, and some professional teams have even hired specific coaches for those parts […]

How Kustomer utilizes custom Docker images & Amazon SageMaker to build a text classification pipeline

This is a guest post by Kustomer’s Senior Software & Machine Learning Engineer, Ian Lantzy, and AWS team Umesh Kalaspurkar, Prasad Shetty, and Jonathan Greifenberger. In Kustomer’s own words, “Kustomer is the omnichannel SaaS CRM platform reimagining enterprise customer service to deliver standout experiences. Built with intelligent automation, we scale to meet the needs of […]

How InpharmD uses Amazon Kendra and Amazon Lex to drive evidence-based patient care

The intersection of DI and AI: Drug information refers to the discovery, use, and management of healthcare and medical information. Healthcare providers have many challenges associated with drug information discovery, such as intensive time involvement, lack of accessibility, and accuracy of reliable data. The average clinical query requires a literature search that takes an average of 18.5 hours. In addition, drug information often lies in disparate information silos, behind pay walls and design walls, and quickly becomes stale.

Control formality in machine translated text using Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, affordable, and customizable language translation. Amazon Translate now supports formality customization. This feature allows you to customize the level of formality in your translation output. At the time of writing, the formality customization feature is available for six target languages: French, German, Hindi, Italian, […]

How SIGNAL IDUNA operationalizes machine learning projects on AWS

This post is co-authored with Jan Paul Assendorp, Thomas Lietzow, Christopher Masch, Alexander Meinert, Dr. Lars Palzer, Jan Schillemans of SIGNAL IDUNA. At SIGNAL IDUNA, a large German insurer, we are currently reinventing ourselves with our transformation program VISION2023 to become even more customer oriented. Two aspects are central to this transformation: the reorganization of […]

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Prepare time series data with Amazon SageMaker Data Wrangler

Time series data is widely present in our lives. Stock prices, house prices, weather information, and sales data captured over time are just a few examples. As businesses increasingly look for new ways to gain meaningful insights from time-series data, the ability to visualize data and apply desired transformations are fundamental steps. However, time-series data […]

Automate a shared bikes and scooters classification model with Amazon SageMaker Autopilot

February 9, 2024: Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose has been renamed to Amazon Data Firehose. Read the AWS What’s New post to learn more. Amazon SageMaker Autopilot makes it possible for organizations to quickly build and deploy an end-to-end machine learning (ML) model and inference pipeline with just a few lines of code or even without […]

How Süddeutsche Zeitung optimized their audio narration process with Amazon Polly

This is a guest post by Jakob Kohl, a Software Developer at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Süddeutsche Zeitung is one of the leading quality dailies in Germany when it comes to paid subscriptions and unique users. Its website, SZ.de, reaches more than 15 million monthly unique users as of October 2021. Thanks to smart speakers and […]

How Clearly accurately predicts fraudulent orders using Amazon Fraud Detector

This post was cowritten by Ziv Pollak, Machine Learning Team Lead, and Sarvi Loloei, Machine Learning Engineer at Clearly. The content and opinions in this post are those of the third-party authors and AWS is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this post. A pioneer in online shopping, Clearly launched their first site […]