AWS Finance and Global Business Services builds an automated contract-processing platform using Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend

Favorite Processing incoming documents such as contracts and agreements is often an arduous task. The typical workflow for reviewing signed contracts involves loading, reading, and extracting contractual terms from agreements, which requires hours of manual effort and intensive labor. At AWS Finance and Global Business Services (AWS FGBS), this process

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Measuring forecast model accuracy to optimize your business objectives with Amazon Forecast

Favorite We’re excited to announce that you can now measure the accuracy of your forecasting model to optimize the trade-offs between under-forecasting and over-forecasting costs, giving you flexibility in experimentation. Costs associated with under-forecasting and over-forecasting differ. Generally, over-forecasting leads to high inventory carrying costs and waste, whereas under-forecasting leads

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AWS expands language support for Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly

Favorite At AWS, our mission is to enable developers and businesses with no prior machine learning (ML) expertise to easily build sophisticated, scalable, ML-powered applications with our AI services. Today, we’re excited to announce that Amazon Lex and Amazon Polly are expanding language support. You can build ML-powered applications that

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British Newscaster speaking style now available in Amazon Polly

Favorite Amazon Polly turns text into lifelike speech, allowing you to create applications that talk and build entirely new categories of speech-enabled products. We’re thrilled to announce the launch of a brand-new, British Newscaster speaking style voice: Amy. The speaking style mimics a formal and authoritative British newsreader. This Newscaster

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Shared by AWS Machine Learning November 11, 2020