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Automatically transcribe Russian to IPA

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One of the main obstacles for those who are learning Russian is the need to map the pronunciation of Cyrillic characters to correct phonemes. Converting Russian words into International Phonetic Alphabet may help, but is this task of grapheme-to-phoneme conversion as simple as it seems?

My voice… but make it synthetic 🤖

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The goal of speech synthesis, also known as text-to-speech, is to convert written texts into spoken utterances. Speech synthesis finds application in many areas of our everyday life, ranging from announcements at train stations to voice assistants in call centers.

Handling imbalanced data with resampling

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It’s not uncommon for data scientists to work on imabalnced data, i.e. such data where classes are not uniformly distributed and one or two classes present a vast majority. Actually, most of classification data is usually imbalanced. To name but a few: medical data to diagnose a condition, fraud detection data, churn client data etc.

Explain your ML model: no more black boxes 🎁

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1. What's in a black box?

The more companies are interested in using machine learning and big data in their work, the more they care about the interpretability of the models. This is understandable: asking questions and looking for explanations is human.
We want to know not only "What's the prediction?", but "Why so?" as well. Thus, interpretation of ML models is important and helps us to:

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