The keynote presentation featured Jonathan Cohen and Scott Stephenson discussing speech recognition software in a session moderated by Jeff Herbst.

Jeff Herbst, vice-president of business development and head of Nvidia GPU Ventures, graphics technology producer Nvidia’s corporate venturing arm, moderated a presentation in which Jonathan Cohen, senior director of artificial intelligence (AI) software at Nvidia, and Scott Stephenson, co-founder and chief executive at artificial intelligence technology developer Deepgram, focused on speech recognition.

Cohen and Stephenson stated that there were three problems in conversational AI technology, including speech recognition, natural language processing and achieving a response that sounded like a natural…