Cryptography use cases: From secure communication to data security 

When it comes to data security, the ancient art of cryptography has become a critical cornerstone of today’s digital age. From top-secret government intelligence to everyday personal messages, cryptography makes it possible to obscure our most sensitive information from unwanted onlookers. Whether shopping online or saving valuable trade secrets to disk, we can thank cryptography …

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Fine-tune and deploy Llama 2 models cost-effectively in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart with AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Llama 2 inference and fine-tuning support on AWS Trainium and AWS Inferentia instances in Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. Using AWS Trainium and Inferentia based instances, through SageMaker, can help users lower fine-tuning costs by up to 50%, and lower deployment costs by 4.7x, while lowering per token latency. …

Personalization of CTC-based End-to-End Speech Recognition Using Pronunciation-Driven Subword Tokenization

Recent advances in deep learning and automatic speech recognition have boosted the accuracy of end-to-end speech recognition to a new level. However, recognition of personal content such as contact names remains a challenge. In this work, we present a personalization solution for an end-to-end system based on connectionist temporal classification. Our solution uses class-based language …

The advantages of holistic facilities management

Beyond the traditional challenges of today’s markets, many organizations must also address the challenges of real estate and facilities management. These issues include managing rising real estate costs, increasing lease rates, new sustainability goals and under-utilized hybrid work environments.   Successfully managing your facilities can directly impact employee productivity and customer satisfaction. Facilities management plays …

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Host the Whisper Model on Amazon SageMaker: exploring inference options

OpenAI Whisper is an advanced automatic speech recognition (ASR) model with an MIT license. ASR technology finds utility in transcription services, voice assistants, and enhancing accessibility for individuals with hearing impairments. This state-of-the-art model is trained on a vast and diverse dataset of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web. Its high accuracy …

Māori Speech AI Model Helps Preserve and Promote New Zealand Indigenous Language

Indigenous languages are under threat. Some 3,000 — three-quarters of the total — could disappear before the end of the century, or one every two weeks, according to UNESCO. As part of a movement to protect such languages, New Zealand’s Te Hiku Media, a broadcaster focused on the Maori people’s indigenous language known as te …