Episode 16: Personalization vs. Personality in Virtual Assistants




Women in AI show

Summary: Today, we chat with Ann about her work in NLP and conversational speech recognition as well as her current role as Voice UI/UX Design Leader at Sound United. While doing a PhD in Cognitive Science and Linguistics at UCSD, Ann's interest in phonetics and NLP led to a dissertation using neural networks to model how speakers of a language form new words via paradigm patterning and token analogy.