AWS Machine Learning Blog

Creating a sophisticated conversational experience using Amazon Lex in Australian English

Amazon Lex is a service for building conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. To build truly engaging conversational experiences, you need high quality speech recognition and natural language understanding that understands the intent of the customer accurately. We are excited to announce that Amazon Lex now supports Australian English. With Australian English, […]

Translating PDF documents using Amazon Translate and Amazon Textract

In 1993, the Portable Document Format or the PDF was born and released to the world. Since then, companies across various industries have been creating, scanning, and storing large volumes of documents in this digital format. These documents and the content within them are vital to supporting your business. Yet in many cases, the content […]

Amazon Polly NTTS voices now available in Singapore, Tokyo, Frankfurt, and London Regions

Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create voice-enabled applications. We’re excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London) Regions. You can now synthesize over 14 NTTS voices in these Regions, including the Newscaster and Conversational […]

Getting a batch job completion message from Amazon Translate

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Neural machine translation is a form of language translation automation that uses deep learning models to deliver more accurate and natural-sounding translation than traditional statistical and rule-based translation algorithms. The translation service is trained on a wide variety of […]

Announcing the winner of the AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters Spin the Model challenge

We’re excited to announce the top 10 compositions and the winner of the AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters Spin the Model challenge. AWS DeepComposer provides a creative and hands-on experience for learning generative AI and machine learning. Chartbusters is a global monthly challenge where you can use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions and compete to top […]

How to run distributed training using Horovod and MXNet on AWS DL Containers and AWS  Deep Learning AMIs

Distributed training of large deep learning models has become an indispensable way of model training for computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) applications. Open source frameworks such as Horovod provide distributed training support to Apache MXNet, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. Converting your non-distributed Apache MXNet training script to use distributed training with Horovod only […]

Using Amazon Textract with AWS PrivateLink

Amazon Textract now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate API calls to Amazon Textract from within your VPC and avoid using the public internet. In this post, we show you how to access Amazon Textract APIs from within your VPC without traversing the public internet, […]

Announcing the AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge, The Sounds of Science

We’re excited to announce the next AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge, in which developers interactively collaborate with AI using the new edit melody feature launching today! Chartbusters is a monthly challenge where you can use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions on the console using machine learning techniques, compete to top the charts, and win prizes. […]

Getting started with the Amazon Kendra SharePoint Online connector

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy-to-use enterprise search service powered by machine learning (ML). To get started with Amazon Kendra, we offer data source connectors to get your documents easily ingested and indexed. This post describes how to use Amazon Kendra’s SharePoint Online connector. To allow the connector to access your SharePoint Online […]