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Alexa & Friends features Yang Liu, principal applied scientist, Alexa AI

While everyone's focused on ChatGPT, Amazon's Alexa AI team is quietly advancing speech recognition and NLP behind the scenes.

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This showcases Amazon's ongoing investment in AI talent and research capabilities in speech technology, highlighting competitive positioning in voice AI against newer LLM players.

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  1. Yang Liu serves as principal applied scientist at Alexa AI

  2. Focus areas include speech recognition, prosody modeling, summarization, and NLP

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Publisher excerpt: Liu discusses her work in speech recognition and understanding, prosody modeling, summarization, and natural language processing.
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