http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/06/20/intels-firefox-extension-called-dispute-finder/ Technology News, Reviews & How-To Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/06/20/intels-firefox-extension-called-dispute-finder/#comment-59100 Bill Meisel Wed, 03 Aug 2011 23:48:00 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=6836#comment-59100 Kinect is the most difficult speech recognition task, talking at a distance, often with sound effects in the background. That it works at all is a breakthrough. More generally, speech recognition has matured to handle very difficult problems. For example, almost every medical report today dictated is processed by speech recognition, with accuracy approaching 99% for some specialties. How accurate would you be if you were transcribing, "A synovectomy was done. Remnants of the menisci and anterior cruciate ligament were excised. Osteophytes were removed. Using the Intermedics instrument, a hole was made in the intercondylar notch of the femur, followed by insertion of the intramedullary rod" (from a real medical report). If you used dictation on your PC, it would adapt to your Scottish accent, and get more accurate as you corrected its errors. Speech recognition on mobile phones is becoming a competitive necessity, and accounts in part for Android's rise in market share relative to Apple's iPhone. In the last monthly issue of my newsletter, Speech Strategy News, I mentioned 155 companies impacted by advanced speech technology, mostly speech recognition. The lack of recognition of the breakthrough in this technology results in part from anecdotal comments like yours that don't reflect much true investigation of the state of the art. Kinect is the most difficult speech recognition task, talking at a distance, often with sound effects in the background. That it works at all is a breakthrough. More generally, speech recognition has matured to handle very difficult problems. For example, almost every medical report today dictated is processed by speech recognition, with accuracy approaching 99% for some specialties. How accurate would you be if you were transcribing, “A synovectomy was done. Remnants of the menisci and anterior cruciate ligament were excised. Osteophytes were removed. Using the Intermedics instrument, a hole was made in the intercondylar notch of the femur, followed by insertion of the intramedullary rod” (from a real medical report). If you used dictation on your PC, it would adapt to your Scottish accent, and get more accurate as you corrected its errors. Speech recognition on mobile phones is becoming a competitive necessity, and accounts in part for Android’s rise in market share relative to Apple’s iPhone. In the last monthly issue of my newsletter, Speech Strategy News, I mentioned 155 companies impacted by advanced speech technology, mostly speech recognition. The lack of recognition of the breakthrough in this technology results in part from anecdotal comments like yours that don’t reflect much true investigation of the state of the art.

]]> http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/06/20/intels-firefox-extension-called-dispute-finder/#comment-59099 Ryan Farmer Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:13:44 +0000 http://wp3.lockergnome.com/blade/?p=6836#comment-59099 So if you load the Focus on the Family site your browser overloads and causes the computer to explode. Am I right? :) So if you load the Focus on the Family site your browser overloads and causes the computer to explode. Am I right?

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