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...
(Score: 3, Insightful) by skater on Thursday October 20 2016, @11:16AM
Uh...algorithms and software can improve... I'm not saying that this is as good as the headline claims, but it's not unreasonable to think that since people are working on the problem, there may be improvements along the way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @08:14PM
Yeah. Reading GP's comment made me think of how computer animation hasn't improved since the "Money for Nothing" video. [google.com]
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