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Córdoba, Argentina
Milan, ItalyParis, France
London, UK
So what’s wrong?
Context
• My accent• The way I look• Bio (maybe)
My Background (why am I here?)
Banking » Telephony » Analytics
When things important, they’re oral
Oral means no trace
Except that that’s no longer true
Why am I excited?
• It’s a hard problem• It has to be solved (trends!)• I founded a company to do that
Trends
• End of the Gutenberg Pause• Humans communicate through sound &
images• Text is an optimization • Text is dead
• Massive amounts of data are now being stored in A/V files
Where are we today?
• Lots of tools for manipulating text• Almost no tools for manipulating
audio & video
Where are we today?
• Lots of tools for manipulating text• Almost no tools for manipulating
audio & video
How can we compute on A/V?
• Transcription• Annotation
Turks are great!
• Human transcription (APIs)• Manual annotation
Can those be automated?
• Transcription• Annotation
» ASR» Artificial vision
Of course! (or I wouldn’t be here)
ASRs
• AT&T• IBM Watson• Vocapia• Speechmatics• …
Vision
• Clarifai• Orbeus• Image Vision Labs• Face++• …
State of the Art
• Last 4 slides
Context (input)
• Telephony vs. wideband• Conversation vs. voicemail• Music vs. speech• English vs. Spanish
Better & better data
Context (output)
• Gender?• Identity?• Relationship?• Emotion?• Location?
Need audio.
Transcripts & annotations aren’t enough.
Recap…why does context matter?
• Context helps us extract more & better data
• Context is data
We compute on data
Recap…where are we today
• Trends• Technology• Context
Recap…where are we today
Recap…where are we today
Recap…where are we today
Recap…where are we today
