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Microsoft's AI-powered speech recognition matches human transcribers

Published 08/22/2017, 11:25 AM
Updated 08/22/2017, 11:25 AM
© Reuters.  Microsoft's AI-powered speech recognition matches human transcribers
  • Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) AI-powered speech recognition software has matched the error rate of professional human transcribers.
  • The 5.1% error rate improves upon the 5.9% rate achieved last year, which Microsoft said was equivalent to human performance but IBM (NYSE:IBM) said was still too high. IBM said 5.1% would achieve human parity.
  • The conversational software was tested against the Switchboard corpus dataset, which contains 2.4K telephone conversations between strangers speaking US English.
  • The newer error rate doesn’t include testing against the CallHome dataset, which includes conversations among family members. CallHome was included in last year’s rate.
  • Source: ZDNet
  • Microsoft shares are up 1.14%.
  • Previously: Microsoft teases new 'Age of Empires' title (Aug. 22)
  • Now read: Microsoft: Coco Isn't A Positive Catalyst, Wait For A Pullback


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