Stanford Professor Monica Lam on the Almond Open Source Voice Assistant - Voicebot Podcast Ep 175

Dr. Monica Lam joined Stanford University's computer science
department in 1988 after earning a PhD from Carnegie Mellon
University. She is co-author of the textbook Compilers
Principles, Techniques, and Tools, known as the Dragon Book. More
recently she has been leading the Open Virtual Assistant
initiative that has at its core, the Almond open source voice
assistant. 


Today we talk about privacy, security, the need for choice of
virtual assistants that are not controlled by 2 or 3 big
companies, and the importance of reducing the cost of data
annotation to make voice assistant development more accessible to
a wider variety of organizations.