Amazon shifts some voice assistant face recognition computing to its own chips
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it shifted part of the computing for its Alexa voice assistant to its own custom-designed chips, aiming to make the work faster and cheaper while moving it away from chips supplied by Nvidia Corp. When users of devices such as Amazon’s Echo line of smart speakers ask the voice assistant a question, the query is sent to one of Amazon’s d
ata centers for several steps of processing. When Amazon’s computers spit out an answer, that reply is in a text format that must be translated into audible speech for the voice assistant.
Author: Reuters
Date: 2020-11-12
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