Microsoft hits a speech recognition milestone with a system just as good as human ears
October 18, 2016 at 15:44 PM EDT
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