Voice Technology Education at Johns Hopkins Gets a Boost from Amazon
From: ECN Magazine - 03/03/2017

At a time when more home, office and vehicle devices respond to vocal
commands, Amazon has named the Johns Hopkins University among the first four
schools to receive support from the Alexa Fund Fellowship, a new program
designed to encourage advances in voice communication between people and
machines.

Amazon has entered this field with Alexa, a voice service that powers devices
such as the Amazon Echo. Through its new Alexa Fund Fellowship program,
introduced today, the company will aid university students who are focusing
"on transformative voice technologies such as text-to-speech, natural
language understanding, automatic speech recognition and conversational
artificial intelligence," according to an online announcement by Douglas
Booms, vice president of worldwide corporate development at Amazon.

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https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2017/03/voice-technology-education-johns-hopkins-gets-boost-amazon

Links:
Alexa Fund Fellowship
https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-fund/alexa-fellowship

Amazon creates Alexa Fund Fellowship to support voice technology education
  and research
http://venturebeat.com/2017/03/02/amazon-creates-alexa-fund-fellowship-to-support-voice-technology-education-and-research