Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it has developed a speech recognition system, called Deep Speech, the likes of which has never been seen, especially in noisy environments. In restaurant settings and other loud places where other commercial speech recognition systems fail, the deep learning model proved accurate nearly 81 percent of the time.
That might not sound too great, but consider the alternative: commercial speech-recognition APIs against which Deep Speech was tested, including those for [company]Microsoft[/company] Bing, [company]Google[/company] and Wit.AI, topped out at nearly 65 percent accuracy in noisy environments. Those results probably underestimate the difference in accuracy, said [company]Baidu[/company] Chief Scientist Andrew Ng, who worked on Deep Speech along with colleagues at the company’s artificial intelligence lab in Palo Alto, California, because his team could only compare accuracy where the other systems all returned results rather than empty strings.
Ng said that while the research is still just research…
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Baidu claims deep learning breakthrough with Deep Speech
Chinese search engine giant Baidu says it has developed a speech recognition system, called Deep Speech, the likes of which has never been seen, especially in noisy environments. In restaurant settings and other loud places where other commercial speech recognition systems fail, the deep learning model proved accurate nearly 81 percent of the time.
That might not sound too great, but consider the alternative: commercial speech-recognition APIs against which Deep Speech was tested, including those for [company]Microsoft[/company] Bing, [company]Google[/company] and Wit.AI, topped out at nearly 65 percent accuracy in noisy environments. Those results probably underestimate the difference in accuracy, said [company]Baidu[/company] Chief Scientist Andrew Ng, who worked on Deep Speech along with colleagues at the company’s artificial intelligence lab in Palo Alto, California, because his team could only compare accuracy where the other systems all returned results rather than empty strings.
Ng said that while the research is still just research…
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