Nuance Accelerates Conversational AI Training by 50% – NVIDIA Developer News Center

The article below is a guest post by Nuance, a company focused on conversational AI. In this post, Nuance engineers describe their use of NVIDIA's automatic mixed precision to speed up their AI models in the healthcare industry. Nuance's ambient clinical intelligence (ACI) technology is an example of how it is accelerating development of solutions for urgent problems in the U.S. healthcare system by training its automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language processing (NLP) models using NVIDIA's Automatic Mixed Precision capabilities on Volta and Turing GPUs with Tensor Cores. ACI addresses what the World Medical Association calls a "pandemic of physician burnout" caused by huge amounts of electronic paperwork. Doctors spend two hours completing documentation for every hour they deliver care.