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Next-gen voice assistants (Practical AI #128)

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Nikola Mrkšić, CEO & Co-Founder of PolyAI, takes Daniel and Chris on a deep dive into conversational AI, describing the underlying technologies, and teaching them about the next generation of voice assistants that will be capable of handling true human-level conversations. It’s an episode you’ll be talking about for a long time!

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    • Featuring:

    • Nikola Mrkšić – GitHub, X
    • Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
    • Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

    Show Notes:

    -PolyAI

    -The Science Behind PolyAI
    -How Customer Service Voice Assistants Handle Different Languages and Accents
    -PolyAI Maintains Lead Over IBM Watson Assistant and Other Popular Language Understanding Models
    -PolyAI’s ConveRT Model Outperforms BERT and GPT-Based Models in Salesforce Research Evaluation
    -Few-Shot Slot Labeling with ConVEx: The Most Accurate Value Extractor on The Market

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