“ChinAI #241: The Long Road to Speech AI” by Jeffrey Ding

Subtitle: A history of Chinese AI researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing. Greetings from a world where…for the rest of the college football season, this status update will be devoted to tracking the Iowa Hawkeye offense's march to mediocrity. Did you hear about that time we gained 2 total yards in the second half? Yeah, that happened this week…As always, the searchable archive of all past issues is here. Please please subscribe here to support ChinAI under a Guardian/Wikipedia-style tipping model (everyone gets the same content but those who can pay support access for all AND compensation for awesome ChinAI contributors).Feature Translation: The Road to Speech AIContext: We’ve now transitioned from the “another issue, another white paper” phase of ChinAI into the “another issue, another deep history” phase. Thanks to Zachary Arnold for sharing this longform Leiphone article (link to original Chinese), recommended by the [...] --- First published: October 23rd, 2023 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-241-the-long-road-to-speech --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.