Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers

Re:Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to develo... by oomkiller on Monday February 09, 2015 @05:35PM (#9024238)

The ability to create your own models is very important to use this, as your existing ones do a bad job of processing my normal speech. To test I just tried reading a few simple phrases and the error rate is pretty high. The Web Speech API did a great job with the same phrases https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html

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Re:Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to develo... by vaibhava72 on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @04:05PM (#9035714)

Just to rule out a known issue with some laptop built-in microphones (e.g. https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/174176/speech-to... ) - could you let us know if you tried with an external close-talking microphone, and if that mattered at all?

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Re:Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to develo... by oomkiller on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @12:35PM (#9069766)

It seemed a bit better with my bose headset, but still was quite lacking.

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Re:Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to develo... by picheny on Monday February 09, 2015 @07:27PM (#9024707)

It is understandable; different people may see different performance depending on what speech service is used. In addition, please keep in mind this is just a beta service; we have only been out there less than a week and know we still have some tuning to do. We also recognize the need for customization and personalization abilities; keep watching our website for continuing developments.

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Re:Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to develo... by mind_heist on Monday February 09, 2015 @05:49PM (#9024341)

Well - I haven't tried the Speech Service myself . But as dev, we notices pretty high error rates with the 'user modeling service' as well.

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