Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, November 28th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

AI Foundation models are coming to more AWS products.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Again, the AWS Reinvent Conference kicked off in Vegas yesterday, but the actual

keynote doesn't happen for another few hours today, I guess. I don't't know I'm honestly confused about their

timeline so there may be some more headlines from that later but what has

already trickled out is that they have decided to add AI Foundation model enhancements to their

automated speech recognition service known as Transcribe now supporting more

than 100 languages quoting Silicon Angle.

The enhanced capabilities include Amazon Transcribe now offering Foundation model-powered

language support and AI-enhanced call analytics.

Amazon personalized now using Foundation models to generate more compiling content and Amazon Lex now using large language models to provide accurate and conversation responses.

The new FM enhanced Amazon Transcribe, Amazon's automatic speech recognition

service delivers what AWS says is significant accuracy improvements between 20

and 50 percent across most languages.

The new ASR system provides differentiating features across all supported languages,

now more than 100, related to ease of use, customization, user safety, and privacy.

Example features include automatic punctuation,

custom vocabulary, automatic language identification,

speaker diarization, the process of identifying and separating

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