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: 2) by mcgrew on Thursday October 20 2016, @08:08PM
"... the software doesn't transcribe text but merely looks for the closest match."
Isn't that what you do when you listen to someone talk? Did the Beatles sing "a hit before your mother was born" or "a hippie four, your mother was born"? For the longest time I thought Aerosmith's "That, that, Dude looks like a lady" was "Black, black, Do the black lady".
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