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Glossary of voice tech

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In the field of voice technology there are lots of buzzwords. Some are self explaining, other lead to confusion regularly. This list should be a glossary.

==General terms==

*[[:Category:Dataset|Dataset]]
*[[Research papers|Papers]] (''research papers'')
*[[Phonemes]]
*[[Model]]
*[[Checkpoint]]
*[[Repository]]

==STT terms==

*[[:Category:Wake words|Wake word]]
*[[Hotword]]
*[[Voice print]]
*[[Word error rate]] (''WER'')
*[[Diarization]]
*[[Barge-in]]

==TTS terms==

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==Voice assistant terms==

*[[Conversational AI]]
*[[Natural language understanding]] (''NLU'')
*[[Intent]]
*[[Utterance]]
*[[Voiceonly]]

==Machine learning==

*[[Epoch]]
*[[Step]]
*[[Batch size]]
*[[Learning rate]]
*[[Inference]]
*[[Alignment]]

Natural language understanding

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Natural Language Understanding (NLU) is a a misleading term, highly discussed in the Conversational AI / scientific community.

In recent years, especially in the [[chatbot]] engineering industry, we tend to use NLU to mean an [[intent]]/entities classifier, based on machine learning techniques (transformers, etc.). The main open source project / state of the art of this approach is probably the [https://rasa.com/blog/introducing-dual-intent-and-entity-transformer-diet-state-of-the-art-performance-on-a-lightweight-architecture/ RASA DIET classifier].

Besides, in terms of linguistic, and psycho-linguistic/cognitive scientific disciplines, there is a great skepticism about naming "language understanding" a ML-based classifier of intents (and entities). A growing number of researcher linguists state that it's even impossible to understand language with machine language techniques (the more famous and currently debated is probably [[GPT-3]]). One of the scientist more active in this battle is [https://ontologik.medium.com/ Walid Saba].

Python

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Python is a programming Language. Wikipedia says:

'''Python''' is an interpreted high-level general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its use of significant indentation. Its language constructs as well as its object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.

The language was developed by Guido van Rossum in the late 80's. Python 2.0 was released in 2000, Python 3.0 - with some mayor changes - in 2008. Since 2020, Python 2 is no longer supported. Python is supported on almost every platform, and easy to learn. Therefore, it is used widely.

== External links ==

* https://www.python.org/

Python

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