11 NEURAL NETWORKS THAT CAN HEAR, SPEAK, AND REMEMBER

We've spent most of the past few chapters looking at how deep neural networks are able to recognize objects in images. I've focused on these networks largely because many of the machines in this book use vision in some form to perceive the world around them. But what if we wanted our machines to have other ways to interact with the world—to generate English sentences, or to understand human speech, for example? Would convolutional networks prove useful for this as well? Are there other neural network “primitives” that would be helpful? Popping up a level, does it even make sense to use neural networks for tasks like understanding speech?