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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: 3, Interesting) by goodie on Thursday October 20 2016, @01:46PM

    by goodie (1877) on Thursday October 20 2016, @01:46PM (#416650) Journal

    All neural networks in the final system were trained with
    the Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit, or CNTK [63, 64], on a
    Linux-based multi-GPU server farm

    I thought that was interesting ;-).

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