Are You Listening? Teaching a Machine to Understand Speech

In the past few years, speech recognition has become a new standard for state-of-the-art technology. We now talk to our phones as much as we talk on them. How can helping machines learn to listen improve our understanding of how our own brains work? Dr Harald Baayen at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and his collaborators work at the intersection of linguistics, psychology, and computational data science to illuminate elegant solutions for processing speech.