Amazon Alexa Machine Learning Team Develops New Approach to Offline Voice Assistant Usage - Voicebot

Recent breakthroughs that have brought us modern-day voice assistants tend to have a common element, the cloud. Deep learning neural networks have proven to be important developments for the speed and robustness of natural language processing (NLP) solutions, but they require a lot of processing power. That typically means voice assistants in smart speakers, on smartphones and in other devices require high speed internet access to function. However, there are many use cases where internet connectivity may be unreliable or unavailable for a period of time. Automobiles are one such situation where offline voice assistant performance is critical.