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US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Microsoft Teams now uses AI & ML to improve how you sound in a meeting

Microsoft Teams has become quite popular in the last couple of years. The app is getting new productivity features every now and then. This time, Microsoft has added a new feature that could be helpful for those who do not have good room acoustics. The new AI and machine learning models in the app are claimed at improving the audio quality in calls and meetings.

Microsoft Teams gets updated with AI and ML models

Microsoft has just updated its app with new machine learning models. The app, with the help of AI, can now help users with bad acoustics sound better on Teams. How it works is, that with the help of AI and new machine learning models, the voice captured will be processed to cancel the echo and instead offer a sound that will be more fine-tuned.

“While we have been trying our best with digital signal processing to do a really good job in Teams, we have now started using machine learning for the first time to build echo cancellation where you can truly reduce echo from all the different devices,” said Robert Aichner from Microsoft to The Verge.

Microsoft has confirmed that it has been testing this feature for several months. The machine learning models were measured and tested in the real world by using 30,000 hours of speech. It was tested in 100,000 different rooms to measure how the models cancel echo.

“We also simulate 100,000 different rooms… the room acoustics play a big role in echo cancellation, Aichner revealed.

Interestingly, Microsoft is offering this feature for free for all its users. Also, Microsoft isn’t using a cloud-based process for this feature to work, rather the on-device echo/acoustics processing is used.

“We said we want to do it on the client, because the cloud is still expensive if you want to do every call processed in the cloud… and obviously we’d have to pass that cost onto the customer.”

Microsoft has already updated the app with this feature and users can try it out now.

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