Taking Siri far-field with HomePodHow do you take Siri from the phone to the home? Apple's Machine Learning Journal explains!
Siri, Apple's personal virtual assistant, debuted on the iPhone but, step by step, expanded to iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. When it came time to build the HomePod, though, Apple needed to make a version of Siri optimized not for wrist, hand, lap or table distances, but for across the room and around the house. That meant making Siri optimized for far-field use cases.
Apple's Machine Learning Journal:
Far-field speech recognition becomes more challenging when another active talker, like a person or a TV, is present in the same room with the target talker. In this scenario, voice trigger detection, speech decoding, and endpointing can be substantially degraded if the voice command isn't separated from the interfering speech components. Traditionally, researchers tackle speech source separation using either unsupervised methods, like independent component analysis and clustering [4], or deep l...
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Taking Siri far-field with HomePod
