Speech recognition seems good on a cell phone but accuracy for conversational speech flatlined in 2001--and no one noticed. Computer understanding of language was supposed to lead to artificial intelligence. Now we have need AI to get computers to understand language. Catch 22. We just haven't recognized it yet. (Sorry, Ray Kurzweil.) |
Robert Fortner's article "Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition" was discussed recently on HN, a must read for those interested in speech recognition.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1313679