Thursday, December 18, 2014

ML: Baidu "Deep Speech" Recognition

Baidu Announces Breakthrough In Speech Recognition, Claiming To Top Google And Apple:

"...artificial-intelligence guru Andrew Ng joined Chinese Internet pioneer Baidu last May as chief scientist
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Ng and 10 members of his Baidu Research team... said they’ve come up with a new method of more accurately recognizing speech
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Deep Speech works better than the others in noisy environments, such as in a car or a crowd... outperformed several speech systems–the Google Speech API, wit.ai, Microsoft’s Bing Speech, and Apple Dictation–by over 10% in terms of word error rates."

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