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Microsoft Developed First Speech Recognition System that is As Accurate as Humans

Amandeep Singh
Amandeep Singh Published October 19, 2016
Last updated: 2016/10/19 at 2:42 PM
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Speech Recognition has always been a trouble for many of the users as its accuracy has always been in questions. But this is not going to be an issue anymore as in a major breakthrough, Microsoft claim to have developed the first Speech Recognition technology that recognises the words in a conversation as well as humans do.

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“We’ve reached human parity. This is a historic achievement,” Xuedong Huang, the company’s chief speech scientist said in a blog post.“This will make Cortana more powerful, making a truly intelligent assistant possible,” Shum said.

Microsoft Developed First Speech Recognition System that is As Accurate as Humans

A team of researchers and engineers in Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research created a speech recognition system that makes the same or fewer errors than professional transcriptionists. They reported a word error rate (WER) of 5.9 percent, which is about equal to that of people who were asked to transcribe the same conversation.

“We’ve reached human parity. This is a historic achievement,” Xuedong Huang, the company’s chief speech scientist said in a blog post.

The research milestone comes after decades of research in speech recognition, beginning in the early 1970s with DARPA, the US agency tasked with making technology breakthroughs.

Over the decades, most major technology companies and many research organisations joined in the pursuit. “This accomplishment is the culmination of over twenty years of effort,” said Geoffrey Zweig, who manages the Speech and Dialog research group.

Microsoft Developed First Speech Recognition System that is As Accurate as Humans

The milestone will have broad implications for consumer and business products that can be significantly augmented by speech recognition. That includes consumer entertainment devices like the Xbox, accessibility tools such as instant speech-to-text transcription and personal digital assistants such as Cortana.

“This will make Cortana more powerful, making a truly intelligent assistant possible,” Shum said.

Microsoft Developed First Speech Recognition System that is As Accurate as Humans

The research milestone does not mean the computer recognised every word perfectly. In fact, humans do not do that, either. Instead, it means that the error rate – or the rate at which the computer misheard a word like “have” for “is” or “a” for “the” – is the same as you would expect from a person hearing the same conversation.

Zweig attributed the accomplishment to the systematic use of the latest neural network technology in all aspects of the system. The push that got the researchers over the top was the use of neural language models in which words are represented as continuous vectors in space, and words like “fast” and “quick” are close together. “This lets the models generalise very well from word to word,” Zweig said.

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