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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 20 2016, @06:58PM
An AI lawyer would first have to be able to construct a decent LIE.
That is arguably a function of General or Strong AI and not something we are even close to yet by any estimate. (Even Elon Musk's optimistic bullshit)