Tech news digest #11

NLP, Telegram banned, Audio-visual speech separation

Introducing Semantic Experiences with Talk to Books and Semantris

Google releases two experiments from Natural Language Processing research. “Talk to books” allows you to query 100,000 books using natural language. “Semantris” is a game where you have to quickly type a word to be as close as possible to the concept displayed. You can access both game on the Semantic Experience homepage. (research.googleblog.com)

An example of a “Talk to Books” query

Russia to ban Telegram messenger over encryption dispute

Russia blocks Telegram in Russia after Telegram repeatedly refused to give Russian state security services access to user messages. (www.reuters.com)

Looking to Listen: Audio-Visual Speech Separation

Using deep learning, Google researchers created a combination between audio and visual signals for isolating a single speech signal from a mixture of sounds. The results can lead to improved video captioning, improved video-conferencing tools... Don’t miss the videos from the article! (research.googleblog.com)

An example of how this audio-visual model can help improving video-conferencing tools

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