Apple is building a machine learning system to rule them alI

With Siri set to see significant improvements once iOS 13 ships, Apple is appearing at a key voice AI tradeshow and has published a study explaining some of the details of a first-of-its-kind machine learning (ML) tech it calls "Overton." This week, Apple is sponsoring the world's largest spoken language processing conference, Interspeech 2019. As part of its work at the event, it has submitted multiple research papers – and members of its growing machine learning teams will meet attendees there. Among other topics (see them all here), Apple will present papers on detecting expression/intent through voice, improving voice recognition, developing more accurate tools to understand speech nuances, using mirroring to build relationships between human users and speech assistants and using tech to optimize speech enhancement. We may learn a little more about what the company is up to in ML at the all-new Interspeech Youtube portal, though we don't know if any Apple video will appear there.