Apologies for the audio issues: Rachael's noise cancelling filter was also apparently cancelling parts of her actual speech and it didn't show up in the test recording. In today's episode, senior developer advocate Rachael talks with researcher Dr. Su Lin Blodgett from Microsoft Research about who NLP technology works for, fairness and access. Stay tuned to the end to help us shoutout our newest Rasa contributors! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/message ..read more

In today's episode, Head of Evangelism, Mady Mantha talks with Josh Meyer, Mozilla Fellow and co-founder of Coqui, about how he got into speech technology, the current state of affairs of open source speech tech and evaluating speech systems. They also discuss common challenges and applications for the enterprise. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/message ..read more

In today's episode, senior developer advocate Rachael talks with Rasa superhero Julian Gerhard about contributing to Rasa, building an assistant to run on a Raspberry PI and the challenges of voice-based conversational assistants.  Stay tuned to the end to help us shoutout our newest Rasa contributors! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/message ..read more

Join Mady Mantha as she talks with Adam Thomas, Principal at Approaching One, about how to build lasting technical products. Adam's work can be found here: http://www.theadamthomas.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/message ..read more

Join Rachael as she talks with Dr. Emily Bender from the University of Washington about ethics in NLP, who's responsible for what agents do and say and the limits of large neural language models. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/message ..read more

Launching conversational AI in the enterprise depends on many things that are essential for successful adoption and delivering value.  In this episode, join Senior Product Evangelist Mady Mantha, and Developer Marketing Manager, Karen White, talk about why enterprises need conversational AI teams, real user data and insights, and a unique approach to launch assistants that can handle mission-critical tasks. Links you'll want to check out: https://blog.rasa.com/project-management-for-conversational-ai-teams-template/ https://rasa.com/summit/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters ..read more

Join Rachael as she chats with Alise Otilia Ramirez, Senior Analytics Engineer at Netflix as they talk about transitioning into tech with a non-traditional background, analytics vs. modelling in data science, data bias and literacy, the ethical role of data scientists and BlackTIDES, an organization amplifying Black voices in Technology, Informatics, Data Science, Epidemiology, & Social Science.  Follow Alise on twitter: https://twitter.com/import_alise, Follow BlackTIDES: https://twitter.com/BlackTIDES1 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/me ..read more

In today's episode, senior technical evangelist Mady Mantha is joined by Heather Nolis, senior ML engineer from T-Mobile. Tune in to learn about how Heather and her team have built an enterprise-grade scalable AI assistant in production using Rasa and Rasa X. Heather and Mady discuss challenges of scaling conversational projects, using real-world data to make continuous improvements, and other exciting topics. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/message ..read more

In today's episode, senior developer advocate Rachael talks with Rasa Hero Vishnu Priya about how she got started with Rasa, her path to becoming a Rasa Hero, and how open source can help you level up your career.  Stay tuned to the end to hear about some of the awesome stuff Rasa community members have been getting up to lately!  Rasa Chats is a biweekly podcast about conversational AI brought to you by the Rasa team. Expect discussions about open source, applied research and how our community of makers is building accessible AI. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spoti ..read more

In today's episode, senior technical evangelist Mady Mantha is joined by Ines Montani and Matthew Honnibal, co-founders of Explosion, a software company that specializes in developer tools for Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications, and core contributors to spaCy, an open-source software library for advanced NLP. Join in to learn about how to build resilient NLP applications, some challenges and pitfalls developers typically experience, and some ways to overcome them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rasachats/message ..read more