Re:Ask HN: An idea that you could not implement?
by _nalply on Sunday November 13, 2016 @04:02AM
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Yes. I didn't mean to propose that. I know that speech recognition already considers alternatives and probabilities.
The main focus of my proposal is something different: a more intuitive «understanding» using neural networks and lexicons. This is somewhat orthogonal to speech recognition.
Then I suggested that this «understanding» could help make speech recognition more reliable by adjusting of some probabilities.
You see, I have an important insight as a Deaf person. Lipreading only offers a small part of what a person could understand by hearing. But I am often still able to understand what a person says by guessing and using the discourse context to fill in the blanks. I am sure that we all do that to some extent, or we wouldn't have homonyms in the language.
This insight tells me that perhaps a disrupting innovation would be a more natural «understanding» of text (in written form) with the help of neural networks and a lexicon.
The main focus of my proposal is something different: a more intuitive «understanding» using neural networks and lexicons. This is somewhat orthogonal to speech recognition.
Then I suggested that this «understanding» could help make speech recognition more reliable by adjusting of some probabilities.
You see, I have an important insight as a Deaf person. Lipreading only offers a small part of what a person could understand by hearing. But I am often still able to understand what a person says by guessing and using the discourse context to fill in the blanks. I am sure that we all do that to some extent, or we wouldn't have homonyms in the language.
This insight tells me that perhaps a disrupting innovation would be a more natural «understanding» of text (in written form) with the help of neural networks and a lexicon.