Microsoft hits a speech recognition milestone with a system just as good as human ears

 It’s a red-letter day at Microsoft Research: a team working on speech recognition has hit a serious symbolic goal with a system that’s as good as you at hearing what people are saying. Specifically, the system has a “word error rate” of 5.9 percent, on par with professional human transcribers. Read More

from Microsoft – TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/18/microsoft-hits-a-speech-recognition-milestone-with-a-system-just-as-good-as-human-ears/?ncid=rss