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Crash Course Computer Science #36: Natural Language Processing

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This episode discusses how computers understand speech and speak themselves. There has been a growing demand for voice user interfaces, but speech is also terribly complicated. Diverse vocabularies, sentence structures can dictate the meaning of words, and computers have to deal with accents, mispronunciations, and common linguistic errors. Natural Language Processing, or NLP, attempts to solve these problems, with a number of techniques. Even though our virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa, Google Home, Bixby, and Cortana have come a long way from the first speech processing and synthesis models, there is still much room for improvement.

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