Rest In Peas mdash; the Death of Speech Recognition

An anonymous reader writes "Speech recognition accuracy flatlined years ago. It works great for small vocabularies on your cell phone, but basically, computers still can't understand language. Prospects for AI are dimmed, and we seem to need AI for computers to make progress in this area. Time to rewrite the story of the future. From the article: 'The language universe is large, Google's trillion words a mere scrawl on its surface. One estimate puts the number of possible sentences at 10^570. Through constant talking and writing, more of the possibilities of language enter into our possession. But plenty of unanticipated combinations remain, which force speech recognizers into risky guesses. Even where data are lush, picking what's most likely can be a mistake because meaning often pools in a key word or two. Recognition systems, by going with the "best" bet, are prone to interpret the meaning-rich terms as more common but similar-sounding words, draining sense from the sentence.'"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F10%2F05%2F03%2F2031240%2FRest-In-Peas-mdash-the-Death-of-Speech-Recognition" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Rest+In+Peas+%26mdash%3B+the+Death+of+ Speech+Recognition%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F9W1SR5 " target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/03/2031240/Rest-In-Peas-mdash-the-Death-of-Speech-Recognition?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9UP6jZpkHtRic_4WwUxbDDJQAXw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9UP6jZpkHtRic_4WwUxbDDJQAXw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9UP6jZpkHtRic_4WwUxbDDJQAXw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/9UP6jZpkHtRic_4WwUxbDDJQAXw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/9IMJgatZDc0" height="1" width="1"/

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