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This Speech Recognition Code is 'Just As Good' as a Pro Transcriber

posted by martyb on Thursday October 20 2016, @04:45AM   Printer-friendly
from the nature'll-anguish-wreck-ignition dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Microsoft on Tuesday said that its researchers have "made a major breakthrough in speech recognition."

In a paper [PDF] published a day earlier, Microsoft machine learning researchers describe how they developed an automated system that can recognize recorded speech as well as a professional transcriptionist.

Using the NIST 2000 dataset of recorded calls, Microsoft's software performed slightly (0.4 per cent) better than the error rate the company attributes to professional transcriptionists (5.9 per cent) for the Switchboard portion of the data, in which strangers discuss a specified topic.

There goes your bright future as a court recorder...

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @08:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @08:50AM (#416533)

    Microsoft on Tuesday said that its researchers have "made a major breakthrough in speech recognition."

    This is the same software company that had an error message like this: "There has been an undetectable error in your system."?

    I spent years wondering how they could tell. Speech recognition, but still a bit off on syntax, grammar, and semantics, so the whole thing is a dog's breakfast, and something of a damp squid. If you know what I mean. Also, grandma just called to say her Windows machine has just performed an illegal operation, and should she call the police? I mean, who exposes stuff like that to the public? No, not like that, you preverts! Put that away! Now go and get dressed in some nice Linux or BSD. "It applies the cream, or it gets the BSOD again!" Bill, Buffalo Bill. Don't ask.

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @09:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @09:30AM (#416541)

    I spent years wondering how they could tell.

    Simple. The system did not detect any error for some time. Since Microsoft knows quite well that it isn't able to write software that doesn't run into an error after some time, the only logical conclusion is that there has been an error that the system could not detect, that is, an undetectable error.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:50AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:50AM (#416585)

    I spent years wondering how they could tell.

    A unit test failed without an error signal?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @04:51AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @04:51AM (#417107)

      Bueller? Anybody?