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