{"id":1648,"date":"2007-02-14T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T13:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=2097"},"modified":"2010-05-08T18:32:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T21:32:21","slug":"re-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2007\/02\/14\/re-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been extremely skeptical about speech recognition. Like machine translation, it&#8217;s always been one of those technologies that for some reason is the &#8220;coming great thing&#8221; for a certain group of tech pundits, while not getting any closer (or even steadily receding) when you look at actual implementations. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innoq.com\/blog\/st\/2007\/02\/14\/fun_with_vistas_speed_recognition.html\">a particularly hilarious example<\/a>. More <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/%7Emyl\/languagelog\/archives\/003407.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding spoken language <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/004181.html\">is a problem<\/a> even for people. I listened carefully and, frankly, didn&#8217;t quite catch several sentences spoken by the operator in  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.innoq.com\/blog\/st\/2007\/02\/14\/fun_with_vistas_speed_recognition.html\">that first video<\/a>. Even though he tries to avoid running words together as he would probably do when speaking to another person, he&#8217;s prone to leaving vowels out (&#8220;c&#8217;rrect&#8221;, &#8220;d&#8217;let'&#8221;, &#8220;cap&#8217;t&#8217;l&#8221;). Personally I&#8217;m able to misunderstand people in several languages, which actually adds to the problem &#8211; before decoding the words, I have to identify the language. Great fun on trips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always been extremely skeptical about speech recognition. Like machine translation, it&#8217;s always been one of those technologies that for some reason is the &#8220;coming great thing&#8221; for a certain group of tech pundits, while not getting any closer (or even steadily receding) when you look at actual implementations. Here&#8217;s a particularly hilarious example. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci","category-travel"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-qA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}