As part of their believe that voice is the future, Amazon is expanding their Alexa Fellowship with a Fund for Investing in Student Scientists and Entrepreneurs.
Amazon is not only betting on developers, but also in the academic community, supporting researchers at top universities focused on speech and language technologies. The initiative is divided in the Graduate Fellowship and the Innovation Fellowship. Universities part of this program include Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India and Johns Hopkins University.
I was talking a few days in the episode about voice fragmentation, how Amazon is the company investing more resources in developers, and they are extending that work to researchers too. It’s a thing to watch.
The link to the announcement is in this episode notes.
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