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Voice Trigger System for Siri

A growing number of consumer devices, including smart speakers, headphones, and watches, use speech as the primary means of user input. As a result, voice trigger detection systems—a mechanism that uses voice recognition technology to control access to a particular device or feature—have become an important component of the user interaction pipeline as they signal the start of an interaction between the user and a device. Since these systems are deployed entirely on-device, several considerations inform their design, like privacy, latency, accuracy, and power consumption.

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Learning Iconic Scenes with Differential Privacy

In this article, we share how we apply differential privacy (DP) to learn about the kinds of photos people take at frequently visited locations (iconic scenes) without personally identifiable data leaving their device. This approach is used in several features in Photos, including choosing key photos for Memories, and selecting key photos for locations in Places in iOS 17.

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All events

Interspeech Conference 2023

Apple is sponsoring the Interspeech Conference, which will take place in person from August 20 to 24 in Dublin, Ireland. Interspeech is the world’s largest and most comprehensive conference on the science and technology of spoken language processing. Below is the schedule of Apple-sponsored workshops and events at Interspeech 2023.

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International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2023

Apple is sponsoring the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), which will take place in person from July 23 to 29 in Honolulu, Hawai'i. ICML is a conference dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence, with over 6,000 attendees. Below is the schedule of Apple-sponsored workshops and events at ICML 2023.

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