August 21, 2017
Via: Tech CrunchMicrosoft announced today that its conversational speech recognition system has reached a 5.1% error rate, its lowest so far. This surpasses the 5.9% error rate reached last year by a group of researchers from Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research and […]
April 11, 2017
Via: CIOYou will very soon be able to use Microsoft’s Cortana voice assistant with the Raspberry Pi 3 and make cool devices that can accept voice commands. But for that, you’ll need to upgrade the popular developer board, which can run […]
November 15, 2016
Via: CIOThanks to artificial intelligence, we have autonomous cars, chat bots, and speech recognition. Microsoft’s CNTK (Cognitive Toolkit) is one among many platforms that trains computers to learn, and it’s getting an upgrade. CNTK drives the Microsoft services Cortana and Skype […]
March 31, 2016
Via: ArsTechnicaMicrosoft is offering new tools to help developers build interactive bots that understand natural language, the company announced at its Build conference today. There are two key components, which are available in preview and are both part of the larger […]
November 10, 2015
Via: itCuratedSource photo Microsoft’s recently released Cortana Analytics Suite aims to be the “Office of analytics.” Microsoft vice president Joseph Sirosh walked through the major features of the software. It’s focused in four areas: information management, big data stores, machine […]
July 30, 2015
Via: itCuratedAfter its out-of-town tryout on Windows Phone 8.1, Microsoft’s Cortana is hitting the big stage with today’s release of Windows 10 (though the virtual assistant won’t be available in all markets.) So I fired off roughly 25 questions and commands […]
November 15, 2023