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Re:Researchers achieve speech recognition milestone by jnbiche on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @06:17PM (#12501677)
This is an interesting question. I wonder if the limitations are due to particularities of English and other common languages in general, or to particularities of human speech in general.
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Re:Researchers achieve speech recognition milestone by ebalit on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:47AM (#12507123)
This poster[1] might be interesting. English spelling-pronunciation mapping is really complex compared to Italian for example. I wonder if Italian would be a better language for speech recognition. Most of speech recognition research is targeted at English, but with similar effort, maybe Italian would enable lower error rates.

[1]: http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~chrisw/ML3/84.pdf

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