CHAPTER 06 / 13

Language, images, sound

Speech, images, video and multimodal systems are not all the same technology.

Language, images, sound: How computers perceive the world

The chapter at a glance

In this chapter

  1. 1How does AI work with language?Natural language processing (NLP) covers translation, classification, working out meaning and generating text.
  2. 2What does a computer “see” in a picture?Computer vision treats images and video as data in which it looks for objects, patterns or movement.
  3. 3Speech recognition and generating soundAI can turn speech into text, generate a voice or recognise particular sounds.
  4. 4How does AI create images?Generative image models create pictures from text, images or other inputs.
  5. 5How does AI create video?A video model has to create or change many connected images over time.
  6. 6What does multimodal AI mean?A multimodal model can handle several kinds of data: for example text, images, sound or video.