Microsoft’s artificial intelligence program has reached the accuracy level of a professional human transcriber

Briefing

Microsoft's artificial intelligence program has reached the accuracy level of a professional human transcriber

December 16, 2016

Briefing
  • Parity with humans – Achieved the same error rate of 5.9% in recognizing speech over the phone as a professional human transcriber, from 6.3% a month ago
  • Performance indicators – Include how many times both AI and professional transcriber wrongly substituted sounds, omitted words, or inserted wrong words into transcriptions
  • Extensive training – Trained the neural network with 2,000 hours of data in three weeks instead of months
  • Applications – May significantly impact speech-to-text services and artificial intelligence systems such as Cortana that can assist the deaf to understand spoken words

Accelerator
Artificial Intelligence

Sector
Information Technology

Organization
Microsoft Corp.

Source

Original Publication Date
October 19, 2016

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