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June 29th, 2007 by Spud Oregon
This will probably be the last part in my speech recognition series. I’ve been using Windows Speech Recognition for about a week, and I have spent some time training it to recognize my voice. Part two of this series showed a slight improvement over the video in part one, but I think you will be very impressed by the level of understanding you are about to see in the following video.
It’s not perfect, but perhaps that’s because my own speech isn’t perfect. It is just a machine after all, and doesn’t know a lot of the technical jargon and names we use so regularly. However, as an English teacher, I actually find that Windows Speech Recognition understands me better than my students! Alright, perhaps it doesn’t understand me, but I can speak much quicker with it than I can with my students here in Japan.
For your information, the passage I read was from the book “The 4-Hour Workweek
” by Timothy Ferriss, and yes that is an affiliate link. I recently earned my first check from Amazon after being an affiliate for over a year. John Chow may not recommend Amazon, but I believe that if you take care of the pennies, the rest will take care of itself. Maybe a year from now, I’ll get another check!
As far as speech recognition goes, I’m not sure it can get much better than what you’ve just seen in this video. Or can it? How far away are we from really communicating with our computers? Imagine speech recognition being used to record dialog from millions of TV shows, movies, interviews and other broadcasts. Put all that information into a central database, determine common responses to questions, throw in some A.I, natural language processing and a means of training your machine, and your computer may very well start talking back to you!
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Posted on June 29th, 2007 in Windows.
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