Cracking the real world ‘cocktail party problem’ in voice AI with Ken Sutton and Hamid Nawab, Yobe

Ever wondered why you in-car voice assistant never hears what you say? Ever caught yourself shouting into your headphones on a busy road, trying to wake up your assistant? One of the most challenging parts of voice AI is picking out voices in noisy environments. You can retrain speech recognition models using acoustic modelling and invest in beamforming microphones, but that might not be enough. Today, we meet the company that has cracked voice recognition in extremely noisy environments. Yobe co-founder and CEO, Ken Sutton, and Hamid Nawab, Co-founder and Chief Scientist, joins us to share more on how he and his team have cracked the ‘cocktail party problem’.Visit https://yobeinc.com Up your CX maturity in this free workshop with yours truly and Cognigy. Find out more: https://vux.world/cognigyFind out more about VUX @ VOICE22 presented by Kore AI: www.voicesummit.ai and save 20% on tickets with the code VUX20 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Interviews with the best brains in AI, sharing how to improve customer experience and business operations using emerging AI technologies such as voice AI, conversational AI, NLP, Large Language Models (LLMs), generative AI and more.We educate business leaders and teams on why and how AI technologies are revolutionising the way consumers engage with businesses and the internet, why that matters and how to implement it properly.“One of the most consistently insightful and deeply respected podcasts in the industry”Bradley Metrock, Score Publishing Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.