Towards Real-World Streaming Speech Translation for Code-Switched Speech

This paper was accepted at the EMNLP Workshop on Computational Approaches to Linguistic Code-Switching (CALCS). Code-switching (CS), i.e. mixing different languages in a single sentence, is a common phenomenon in communication and can be challenging in many Natural Language Processing (NLP) settings. Previous studies on CS speech have shown promising results for end-to-end speech translation …

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Use AWS PrivateLink to set up private access to Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service provided by AWS that offers developers access to foundation models (FMs) and the tools to customize them for specific applications. It allows developers to build and scale generative AI applications using FMs through an API, without managing infrastructure. You can choose from various FMs from Amazon and leading …

Key considerations for evaluating AI-powered tools for enterprise developers

As cloud development has evolved, teams have benefitted from several innovations that significantly increased productivity, such as advanced debuggers, modern IDEs and Notebooks, online communities, and cloud computing services. Despite this, organizations continue to struggle with a chronic shortage of developers with desired skills. Moreover, developers often face numerous challenges, some of which are particularly …

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Audioplethysmography for cardiac monitoring with hearable devices

Posted by Xiaoran “Van” Fan, Experimental Scientist, and Trausti Thormundsson, Director, Google The market for true wireless stereo (TWS) active noise canceling (ANC) hearables (headphones and earbuds) has been soaring in recent years, and the global shipment volume will nearly double that of smart wristbands and watches in 2023. The on-head time for hearables has …