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Re:Researchers achieve speech recognition milestone by rhizome on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @09:18PM (#12502645)
The base product use case has been to handle phone fidelity for many years. Think: legal dictation, retail digital recording hardware (phones), and medical transcription. Speech-to-text for recordings fed by a Telefunken U-47 is highly niche. :)
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Re:Researchers achieve speech recognition milestone by dharma1 on Thursday September 15, 2016 @05:34AM (#12504589)
heh. It's not so much because of the microphones that the data sets are THAT narrow band - it's more phone bandwidth limitations. Even the cheapest electret and MEMS mics have pretty good freq response, far beyond 4khz (nyquist 8khz) this data set uses.

Now that bandwidth is becoming less of an issue, we will be getting less shitty sounding, wider bandwidth phone audio - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_audio

Though if I had it my way, U87 or U47, or hey even SM7B would be mandatory for all speech recordings :)

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