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At an academic speech tech conference today (Thursday), Apple researchers will present some of the classic building blocks behind the voice generation of the Siri assistant. "Apple has been publishing research more or less continuously over the years," Torbjørn Svendsen, an electrical engineer studying speech processing at …

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  1. theModge

    Siri came from an academic background

    The knowledge management side of Siri came from Tom Gruber, who to this day is the person to quote when defining an ontology. As his website shows he doesn't publish much about that now, but he still does interesting and related research.

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      Re: Siri came from an academic background

      Arguably should have stayed there for a few more decades, so that it might be able to do something useful. For me, speaking computers still haven't moved beyond Joanna Lumley breathlessly announcing "You've got mail", back in, what 1991.

      Text to speech works OK (and is a much simpler issue), but computers really understanding language, and achieving effective reciprocal communication......about as close to production as fusion reactors.

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  2. Gis Bun

    Few remember that when Siri came out in whatever iPhone first, it was stuck in beta until the following iOS release.

    The woman behind Siri's voice didn't even know it was modeled after her voice until later.

    When you agreed [at least initially] to the terms - and everyone did, apple kept you voice requests and metadata for a year for "testing purposes' and then another 1.5 years without most of the metadata.

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