Why Custom Language Models (CLMs) are Needed in Speech Recognition for Kids

Welcome back to "Lessons from Our Voice Engine," where members of our Engineering and Speech Tech teams offer high level insights into how our voice engine works. Lesson 2 is from Lora Lynn Asvos, a Computational Linguist on our Speech Tech team. CLM stands for "custom language model." As mentioned in Lesson 1, language models are statistical models of language that can predict the next word based on the context. CLMs are language models, as the name implies, but they have a little something extra.