This speech recognition software is much faster than human typists
 

This speech recognition software is much faster than human typists
http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/Q59ZjnZC0GZs...2.28.58_PM.pnghttp://a.amz.mshcdn.com/assets/feed-...50839a8e00.jpghttp://a.amz.mshcdn.com/assets/feed-...32c6f24ba1.jpg
Speech recognition software used to be awful. It couldn't deal with background **ise, its vocabulary was limited and it was awkward to use in public.*

But we've come a long way. A new speech recognition system can transcribe English or Mandarin about three times faster than humans can type on a smartphone, according to a recent study. Developers from the popular Chinese search engine Baidu created the program back in December. It's called Deep Speech 2, and it uses machine learning to vastly improve speech recognition.*

SEE ALSO: Mark Zuckerberg's First Stop in China: Baidu Headquarters


The study, a collaboration between Stanford University, Baidu and the University of Washington, also found that the system produced 20.4 percent fewer errors than people typing in English and 63.8 percent fewer than people working in Mandarin.* Read more...

More about Typing, Mandarin, English, Data, and Speech Recognitionhttp://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gamp...0&c=1472480593
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/atE303UHpdk