Sébastien Bratières has spent 15 years in the speech and language industry in different European ventures, starting from the EU branch of Tellme Networks (now Microsoft) to startups in speech recognition and virtual conversational agents. These days, Sébastien is finishing a PhD in statistical machine learning with Zoubin Ghahramani at the University of Cambridge, UK, and will soon be looking for his next challenges. Sébastien lives in Rome, Italy, with his wife and two children.
Talks I've Given
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Solving speech recognition - Intermediate
Featuring Sébastien Bratières
“Solving speech recognition” is one of the achievements which brought deep learning to front stage in the last few years. However the mechanics of how deep learning is applied in a speech engine are described less often in divulgative articles than, say, those of CNN image classification. In this...
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Points of contact between big data engineering and machine learning - Intermediate
Featuring Sébastien Bratières
Machine learning is central to data science, and there deserves to be a dialogue between the corresponding communities.
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