Historic Achievement: Microsoft researchers reach human parity in conversational speech recognition
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I would like to test it against an India based Microsoft support person... I have a lot of trouble to recognize the words they speak...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
I was trying to activate an MSDN subscription and had to phone India. It was literally impossible to get it done, the conversation was so degraded due to their appalling English. The girl actually had the temerity to say she couldn't understand me, and I have a very BBC English accent. I eventually gave up and did it in French with a French support number. And she was form some French speaking country somewhere in the world. It seems French has a narrower range of pronunciation globally. It is certainly intolerant of mispronunciation in France.
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Microsoft has made a major breakthrough in speech recognition, creating a technology that recognizes the words in a conversation as well as a person does.
And niche in all the way the one I see a
OK, it's using the current version of speech recognition, but that's what I get when I try it.
Speach recognition was such a holy grail back in the day, and yet, when it became really usable, we just dropped it. Seems we prefer to use a keyboard and mouse after all.
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Speach recognition was such a holy grail back in the day, and yet, when it became really usable, we just dropped it. Seems we prefer to use a keyboard and mouse after all.
I do like them :)
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I do like them :)
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
What for, dictation? I know disabled people like the command and control a lot, heck, it gives them access to the net, who wouldn't like it, but for general use I haven't seen it since the late 90s.
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What for, dictation? I know disabled people like the command and control a lot, heck, it gives them access to the net, who wouldn't like it, but for general use I haven't seen it since the late 90s.
I am not saying speech recognition is not useful, I just said I do like keyboard and mouse
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I am not saying speech recognition is not useful, I just said I do like keyboard and mouse
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
:) Yeah, everyone does.
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I would like to test it against an India based Microsoft support person... I have a lot of trouble to recognize the words they speak...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I would like to test it against an India based Microsoft support person... I have a lot of trouble to recognize the words they speak...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Why would you expect better then? They said it has reached parity, not exceeded.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough." Alan Kay.
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I would like to test it against an India based Microsoft support person... I have a lot of trouble to recognize the words they speak...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I would like to test it against an India based Microsoft support person... I have a lot of trouble to recognize the words they speak...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
India based Microsoft support person
That's simple. They're saying, "your computer is infected with a virus; give us remote access and pay us lots of money, and we'll “fix” it for you". :-D
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