If Apple continues to poach Google’s best experts like this guy, who was one of the search giant’s top minds in artificial intelligence, maybe it stands a chance of fixing Siri after all.
The promotion highlights the growing importance of machine learning and artificial intelligence at the Cupertino firm.
Apple’s Audio Software Engineering and Siri Speech Team explain how HomePod uses machine learning running on the 64-bit Apple A8 processor to filter out echo, reverberation and background noise when making spoken requests to Siri.
Apple will attend the world’s largest machine learning conference next week and is seeking to fill more than a hundred open positions in this field.
Siri’s speech recognition system is paired with a bunch of geolocation-based language models allowing the smart assistant to recognize obscurely named places on a map.
Apple has a new chief that will oversee Apple’s strategy for artificial intelligence and machine learning, who’s also supposed to fixate many shortcomings of Apple’s underpowered digital assistant.
Thanks to watchOS 5 and machine learning, Apple Watch customers can invoke Siri listening sessions hands-free, no need to speak the “Hey Siri” trigger phrase.
Google Photos will get one-tap actions, work with your favorite apps and devices, change black-and-white shots into color and help you remove background colors from an image.
The new app replaces Google’s existing Play Newsstand and News & Weather apps and includes AI-powered recommenations and features like Full Coverage.
“Hey Siri” was introduced in iOS 8 on iPhone 6 and many people still don’t realize that Apple chose that particular natural phrasing for a very good reason.
UniChar is a cool little app and keyboard, and offers access to a huge world of Unicode characters that are otherwise absent within the standard iOS keyboard. If you’re looking for a more hipster way to send emoji, or need access to more complex symbols, check out UniChar.
Automix AI in the new djay Pro 2 app for Mac uses machine learning for remarkably smooth transitions between songs. We asked our own Andrew O’Hara to put together a quick hands-on video walthrough showing how Automix AI works.