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Kaldi Creator Daniel Povey Joining Xiaomi in Beijing

Daniel Povey, the main developer of the widely used open-source speech recognition toolkit Kaldi, tweeted today that he is likely joining Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi at its Beijing headquarters to work on a next generation “PyTorch-y Kaldi.”

by Synced 2019-09-23 2

AI Industry

AI vs AI: ‘FakeSpotter’ Studies Neurons to Bust DeepFakes

“Adversaries and strategic competitors probably will attempt to use deep fakes or similar machine-learning technologies to create convincing — but false — image, audio, and video files to augment influence campaigns directed against the United States and our allies and partners.”

by Synced 2019-02-21 0

AI Research

NAS-Generated Model Achieves SOTA In Super-Resolution

In its new paper Fast, Accurate and Lightweight Super-Resolution with Neural Architecture Search, Xiaomi’s research team introduces a deep convolution neural network (CNN) model using a neural architecture search (NAS) approach. Performance is comparable to cutting-edge models such as CARN and CARN-M.

by Synced 2017-11-28 0

AI China Industry

China’s Smart Speaker Market Heats Up

The lack of Mandarin interface in Echo and Google Home has prompted a number of Chinese companies to get in the game with their own smart speakers.