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Re:Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Austr... by SmallDeadGuy on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @07:40AM (#14956740)
> it is the only one that uses voice recognition technology to test speaking ability

> Other test providers have said they use human assessors

No, the article clearly states that the test in question used voice recognition on a computer. Other companies use human evaluations, however this one didn't.

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Re:Irish vet fails oral English test needed to stay in Austr... by ganeshkrishnan on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @08:04AM (#14956893)
This is what I disagreed with. Afaik, everything else is marked by computers but voice was always handled by humans.

Unless this is something very recent in which case I am not sure how computers can handle accents or ambiguous words. Even google's voice to text has so many errors on untrained voice models

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