This introductory module presents some of the recent developments in the area of spoken language processing and some of the ethics that professionals in the area should be aware of. ## Virtual Assistants - [[virtual assistant]] - [[Apple Siri (2011)]] - [[Amazon Alexa (2014)]] - [[Microsoft Cortana (2014)]] - [[Google Assistant (2016)]] ## Traditional Vs End-to-End Models - [[traditional pipeline model]] - [[end-to-end model]] - [[e2e speech recognition (2006)]] - [[neural machine translation (2014)]] - [[neural speech synthesis (2016)]] - [[zero-shot voice cloning (2019)]] - [[fine-tunning of large language models (2022)]] ## Ethical Challenges - [[ethics for speech technologies]]