Text normalization (TN) converts text from written form into its verbalized form, and it is an essential preprocessing step before text-to-speech (TTS). TN ensures that TTS can handle all input texts without skipping unknown symbols. For example, “$123” is converted to “one hundred and twenty-three dollars.” Inverse text normalization (ITN) is a part of the automatic speech recognition (ASR)…
]]>Sign up for the latest Speech AI news from NVIDIA. Conversational AI is a set of technologies enabling human-like interactions between humans and devices based on the most natural interfaces for us: speech and natural language. Systems based on conversational AI can understand commands by recognizing speech and text, translating on-the-fly between different languages…
]]>As computers and other personal devices have become increasingly prevalent, interest in conversational AI has grown due to its multitude of potential applications in a variety of situations. Each conversational AI framework is comprised of several more basic modules such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the models for these need to be lightweight in order to be effectively deployed on…
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