How does the Amazon Store know what products and offers to display to a customer? Part of the answer involves reinforcement learning, a type of machine ...

Three university teams have emerged as top performers in the inaugural Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge.Launched in March 2021, the TaskBot Challenge involved ...

The Arabic version of Alexa launched in December 2021, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and like all new Alexa languages, it ...

At Amazon, we always look to invent new technology for improving customer experience. One technology we have been working on at Alexa is on-device speech ...

Editor’s note: Belinda Zeng joined Amazon in 2017 as the global head of data science and has participated in hundreds of interviews for science roles across ...

At Prime Video, we’re delivering content to millions of customers on more than 8,000 device types, such as gaming consoles, TVs, set-top boxes, and ...

Recommender systems are everywhere. Our choices in online shopping, television, and music are supported by increasingly sophisticated algorithms that use ...

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) is the conversion of acoustic speech to text, and with Alexa, the core ASR model for any given language is the same ...

René Vidal, an Amazon Scholar who is the Herschel Seder Professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of the Mathematical Institute for Data Science at ...

At this year's Interspeech conference, in September, Alexa AI is co-organizing four special sessions — themed sessions within the main conferences — all of ...

In September 2021, when Josh Miele, an Amazon principal accessibility researcher, got a text from someone at the MacArthur Foundation requesting a phone ...

In February 2021, Columbia Engineering and Amazon announced the initial faculty research award recipients and PhD fellowships for the Columbia Center of AI ...