Speech Rcognition
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When astronaut Dave Bowman tries to go back to the mothership, HAL refuses to open the pod bay door with the calm and categorical “I am sorry Dave, I am afraid I can’t do that” famous line in one of the most dramatic scenes of the movie 2001 a Space Odyssey. Now, imagine HAL was actually built
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I really appreciate when people try to give a simplified view of technology with the goal to let the general public understand what’s behind the hood, and how complex is, oftentimes, to make things works properly. That is the goal I had in mind when I embarked on the project of writing The Voice in the Machine. However, I believe,
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If I had to chose one of the areas of human-machine natural communication where we haven’t ben able to make any significant stride during the past decades, I would choose “general” language understanding. Don’t get me wrong. Language understanding per se has made huge steps ahead. IBM Watson‘s victory over Jeopardy! human champions is a testimony of
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There is a lot of talking about the performance of Apple’s Siri. An article appeared on the New York Times a few days ago brutally destroying Siri from the point of view of its performance, and others compare it with Google Voice Search. As a professional in the field, having followed Google Voice Search closely, knowing well the people who work
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Although speech recognition is getting better and better, it keeps making mistakes that often annoy us. Much more than humans would do in similar situations. And we have been trying to make it better for decades. What’s wrong with it? Scientists are constantly testing and trying to improve speech recognition in adverse conditions, such as
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Speech recognition is one of those technologies who have been around for a while, but have never become mature enough to be considered established and part of everyday’s life like, instead, digital cameras, retina displays, and bluetooth. However, for a few years now speech recognition technology has be “sort-of” working so as some of us
THE VOICE IN THE MACHINE 