“ChinAI #242: The Long Road to Speech AI (part 2)” by Jeffrey Ding

Subtitle: JHU in the 1990s to large language models in the 2020s. Greetings from a world where…sisig is now my favorite food (Hawks had a bye 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 AI (part 2)Context: Last week, we began reading about Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing (CLSP), and some of the Chinese AI researchers connected to the center. We heard stories about Peng Xu, who got his PhD at CLSP, worked at Google, and now works on large language models as a VP of Ant Group (Alibaba affiliate). We learned about Zhifei Li, who graduated from CLSP five years after Peng Xu, made important [...] --- First published: October 30th, 2023 Source: https://chinai.substack.com/p/chinai-242-the-long-road-to-speech --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.