The Audio Edge: Ambient Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with Sound

Immersive & Spatial Audio

Presenters:
Sally Kellaway, Microsoft - Seattle, WA, USA
George Valavanis, Microsoft - Seattle, WA, USA

Audio professionals understand that sound is a powerful signal for capturing and conveying information about the world. From sound designers to composers, we use the communicative capacity of sound to tell stories. Advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are introducing new ways to process sound as data to better understand our environment and expand our awareness. 
Presenting findings from Microsoft’s Mixed Reality at Work development team, George Valavanis and Sally Kellaway discuss audio’s role in our cloud-connected future. From ML data capture workflows to the Microsoft Azure and Dynamics 365 tools used to develop data insights, we’ll uncover how audio will expand the way we interact with our world, define a new class of hardware technologies, and become the data stream of the future.