Microsoft has broadened open-source access to its Computational Network Toolkit, in a move that underscores the ongoing arms race around machine learning technology. CNTK had initially been made available on Microsoft's Codeplex site in April 2015 through under an academic license, but now it has been... Constellation Research, Constellation SuperNova Awards, Connected Enterprise, and the Constellation Research logo are trademarks of Constellation Research, Inc. All other products and services listed herein are trademarks of their respective companies.

Xuedong Huang, Microsoft's chief speech scientist, said he and his team were anxious to make faster improvements to how well computers can understand speech, and the tools they had to work with were slowing them down. So, a group of volunteers set out to solve this problem on their own, using a homegrown solution that stressed performance over all else.

Microsoft has broadened open-source access to its Computational Network Toolkit, in a move that underscores the ongoing arms race around machine learning technology. CNTK had initially been made available on Microsoft's Codeplex site in April 2015 through under an academic license, but now it has been... To read the full story, Sign In to your Research Unlimited or Executive Network account, or Subscribe. Constellation Research, Constellation SuperNova Awards, Connected Enterprise, and the Constellation Research logo are trademarks of Constellation Research, Inc. All other products and services listed herein are trademarks of their respective companies.