Automatic speech recognition is one of the oldest tasks involving natural language, having its roots in 1952 when IBM developed a phonetic-based system called “Audrey.” Since then, a lot has changed. Nowadays, most of the systems used for speech recognition in companies use either neural network-based solutions or HMM. …

On April 29th, NVIDIA published Riva Speech Skills release 2.1.0 (full release notes can be found here). Among other features, it includes an improvement of Conformer ASR latency/throughput. Our attention was drawn to the first item from this list. On one of our current projects at Data Monsters, we use…

by Alexey Maltsev

by Anna Mosolova Coronavirus brought a lot of changes in our everyday lives affecting all its sectors. New restrictions, protective measures, widespread lockdowns, and mass quarantines had an enormous impact on the industry. In a time when people’s work should be limited and the remaining employees’ activity is to be…

by Viktoria Kondrashuk Keywords: COVID-19, MANUFACTURING, PRODUCTION PLANNING, COST OPTIMIZATION, LABOR RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING, ERP, CONVEYOR LINE, AUTOMATION. Description of the Business Problem. Why Does It Matter? The pandemic of the COVID-19 virus has affected many sectors of the economy. According to research by the Institute for Supply Management, the manufacturing sector contracted in April 2020, as the…

by Viktoria Kondrashuk Keywords: COVID-19, PRODUCTION, MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION, SCHEDULE PLAN, SCHEDULE THEORY, SCHEDULE COMPOSITION, COST REDUCTION, LABOR ORGANIZATION, MANAGEMENT OF A PRODUCTION ENTERPRISE, CONVEYOR LINE, AUTOMATION. Description of the Business Problem. Why Does it Matter? This year, the entire world business has faced another crisis; this time was caused by the outbreak of the global pandemic of the new virus…

by Anna Mosolova The crisis provoked by the coronavirus affected the majority of sectors of the economy. However, some companies not only didn’t experience such a problem, but they also gained profits from this situation because of the enormous increase in demand. One of these industries is educational technologies. Self-isolation…