AWS Machine Learning Blog

Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create voice-enabled applications. We’re excited to announce the general availability of all Neural Text-to-Speech (NTTS) voices in Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), EU (Frankfurt), and EU (London) Regions. You can now synthesize over 14 NTTS voices in these Regions, including the Newscaster and Conversational […]

Amazon Translate is a neural machine translation service that delivers fast, high-quality, and affordable language translation. Neural machine translation is a form of language translation automation that uses deep learning models to deliver more accurate and natural-sounding translation than traditional statistical and rule-based translation algorithms. The translation service is trained on a wide variety of […]

We’re excited to announce the top 10 compositions and the winner of the AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters Spin the Model challenge. AWS DeepComposer provides a creative and hands-on experience for learning generative AI and machine learning. Chartbusters is a global monthly challenge where you can use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions and compete to top […]

Distributed training of large deep learning models has become an indispensable way of model training for computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) applications. Open source frameworks such as Horovod provide distributed training support to Apache MXNet, PyTorch, and TensorFlow. Converting your non-distributed Apache MXNet training script to use distributed training with Horovod only […]

Amazon Textract now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoints via AWS PrivateLink so you can securely initiate API calls to Amazon Textract from within your VPC and avoid using the public internet. In this post, we show you how to access Amazon Textract APIs from within your VPC without traversing the public internet, […]

We’re excited to announce the next AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters challenge, in which developers interactively collaborate with AI using the new edit melody feature launching today! Chartbusters is a monthly challenge where you can use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions on the console using machine learning techniques, compete to top the charts, and win prizes. […]

Every day there is something new going on in the world of AWS Machine Learning—from launches to new use cases to interactive trainings. We’re packaging some of the not-to-miss information from the ML Blog and beyond for easy perusing each month. Check back at the end of each month for the latest roundup. Launches This […]

Amazon Kendra is a highly accurate and easy-to-use enterprise search service powered by machine learning (ML). To get started with Amazon Kendra, we offer data source connectors to get your documents easily ingested and indexed. This post describes how to use Amazon Kendra’s SharePoint Online connector. To allow the connector to access your SharePoint Online […]

Amazon Lex now provides the express testing capability on the AWS Management Console to expedite building your chatbot. You can start testing your bot soon after you initiate the build process without having to wait for the entire build to complete. You can use the new testing option to check the basic interaction elements such […]

AWS is excited to announce the winner of the first AWS DeepComposer Chartbusters Challenge, Catherine Chui. AWS DeepComposer gives developers a creative way to get started with machine learning (ML). To make the learning more fun, in June 2020 we launched the Chartbusters Challenge, a competition where developers use AWS DeepComposer to create original compositions […]