“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.

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Narrations of the ChinAI Newsletter by Jeffrey Ding. China is becoming an indispensable part of the global AI landscape. Alongside the rise of China’s AI capabilities, a surge of Chinese writing and scholarship on AI-related topics is shedding light on a range of fascinating topics, including: China’s grand strategy for advanced technology like AI, the characteristics of key Chinese AI actors (e.g. companies and individual thinkers), and the ethical implications of AI development. While traditional media and China specialists can provide important insights on these questions through on-the-ground reporting and extensive background knowledge, ChinAI takes a different approach: it bets on the proposition that for many of these issues, the people with the most knowledge and insight are Chinese people themselves who are sharing their insights in Chinese. Through translating articles and documents from government departments, think tanks, traditional media, and newer forms of “self-media,” etc., ChinAI provides a unique look into the intersection between a country that is changing the world and a technology that is doing the same.