Should Alexa Read “2/3” as “Two-Thirds” or “February Third”?: The Science of Text Normalization

1 · Amazon · May 16, 2019, 1 p.m.
Text normalization is the process of converting particular words of a sentence into a standard format so that software can handle them. Breaking inputs into component parts and factoring in syntactic information reduces the error rate of a neural text normalization system by 98%....