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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: 1) by LVDOVICVS on Thursday October 20 2016, @01:08PM

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  • (Score: 2) by gidds on Friday October 21 2016, @01:22PM

    by gidds (589) on Friday October 21 2016, @01:22PM (#417221)

    Fascinating — but how much sense does that make if you have an American accent?

    (I don't, and some of it's far enough from being a homonym as to make it pretty opaque.)

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    • (Score: 1) by LVDOVICVS on Monday October 31 2016, @04:06PM

      by LVDOVICVS (6131) on Monday October 31 2016, @04:06PM (#420912)
      My friends and I have mid-western American accents. We ran across this years ago and had a good deal of fun trying to decipher it. Some of it was quite easy to understand, whereas other parts were a lot of work.