Teaching AI to learn speech the way children do

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This post details the ZeroSpeech 2019 challenge, a collaboration to teach AI systems to learn speech using only audio input, without text or phonetic labels. Participants are tasked with building an AI system that can discover its own discrete 'orthographic' notation and use it to re-synthesize sentences. The challenge aims to advance unsupervised learning techniques and benefit AI tasks for low-resource languages.