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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by nshm on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:12PM (#12738754)
From the paper eight different recognizers combined together approached results of a single person reviewed once. Not really a parity.
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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by rattray on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:28PM (#12738894)
Isn't it substantially simpler + cheaper to combine 8 computer programs than to combine >1 people?
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Re:Researchers reach human parity in conversational speech r... by djsumdog on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:41PM (#12738994)
Looks like they used various neural networks and trained based on data they currently already transcribe professionally. So it had to be trained and only represents a subset of people who speak and have their works transcribed at Microsoft events.

Being Microsoft, I'm sure the place is diverse, but there's no mention in the paper on accents or dialects that I can see (might just be missing it).

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