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Listening.

To a model, sound is an image made of frequencies. From there it can recognize noises, keywords and whole sentences.

  1. 03.01 Sound becomes an image 15 min

    Samples per second, waveform, spectrogram and mel scale. You see it live with the microphone. Live spectrogram

  2. 03.02 Recognizing a sound 22 min

    One-second windows and a small convolutional network. You teach the phone to tell three sounds apart. Lab, Sound input

  3. 03.03 The word that wakes the phone 14 min

    How a phone can always be listening without draining the battery. False alarms and missed words.

  4. 03.04 From voice to text, and back 16 min

    Transcription and speech synthesis on the device, from Whisper tiny to the live captions on your phone.

The course review → The key concepts and new questions, once you've finished the lessons.

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