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IBM Strives For 'Superhuman' Speech Tech
robyn217 writes "IBM unveiled new speech recognition technology today that can comprehend the nuances of spoken English, translate it on the fly, and even create on-the-fly subtitles for foreign-language television programs. One of the projects perpetually monitors Arabic television stations, dynamically transcribing and translating any words spoken into English subtitles. Videos can then be viewed via a web browser, with all transcriptions indexed and searchable."
however the researchers stated "We still can't figure out what Bob Dylan is saying"
GB on TV: "We have prevailed"
Subtitle: "All your base are belongs to us"
Disclosure: I'm stupid
I cannot wait when I buty the first eBabelfish gadget that I will put in my ear so I can understand spoken language of my russian colegues... ;-) :-) I hope that someobody will not consider it as "important technology for the national security" and will not restrict it by any mean...
(I'm sure that this eBabelfish is already installed - not in my ear - but on the telecommunication centers...)
Well, I've got to get back to work. When I stop rowing, the slave ship just goes in circles.
To wreck a nice beach...
...they should send it to Glasgow on a saturday night just after the pubs
have closed.
"Ye loooiii ahhh me jimmeh??! *belch* C'mere ya wee electrahnich bastid, I'll
shoo ye!"
May be IBM is going to make speech recognition true, but Bill Gates said that this was posible a long time ago. Simply genius.
-= If you fight Dragons long enough, you will become a Dragon =-
And of course: "Up yours!" ;-)
I'm wondering if this was used durring the lead up on Iraq? "i'm unclear if there are bombs here" and end up getting translated into "there are nuclear bombs here".
I think it was about 1996 or maybe 1997 when I attended an IBM demonstration (for retailers) for its speech recognition software. Anyway, the lady who was narrating the text and. talking. like. a. robot. to. do. it. was half-way through when, for no apparent reason, the word uterus appeared in the text.
So I'm sitting here thinking of how funny it was to the juvenile me back then, and how unfunny it seems right now. Oh well.
I'm sorry, what?!?!?
I cannot understand a word you're saying. What's with that accent?
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
From boondock saints:
Rocco: Fucking... What the fuck. Who the fuck fucked this fucking... How did you two fucking fucks...
[shouts]
Rocco: fuck!
Connor: Well, that certainly illustrates the diversity of the word.
Think that just about covers it...
Pah. English-speaking people never misinterpret Arabic media. al-Jazeera is a terrorist front organisation and ought to be bombed, and that's all there is to it!
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
I can wreck a nice beach. I can recognize speech.
Well, Dragon Systems eight passed the beach test first try. Knowing the program, however, I did use pretty clear diction.
I use Dragon Systems and find it absolutely great. There are a few persistent errors. For example, It frequently fails to get "there" and " there" right on the first try. But the fly down menu system enables me to quickly correct the problem on the run. Certainly I pick it up on an edit. If IBM has something better than this -- and it sounds like they do -- then it must be pretty darn good. Of course, you have to insert the punctuation verbally. But that comes with a little practice -- provided that you know what to do in the first place.
It does take a little bit of investment in time. But not nearly as much as learning to type at seventy words a minute, which I can now do in dictation. I have added very little by way of customized commands etc. The program has done a lot of learning on its own.
Let's try once again: I can't recognize beach. I can recognize speech. Oops. Okay, it failed that time. Let's try one more time: I can wreck a nice beach. I can recognize speech. Well, the phrases have to be enunciated pretty clearly or the program has trouble.
Which which blew the blue candle. Failed on the second "which" the b*tch.
Okay, okay. I'll put the laundry in the dryer. No I am not just screwing around on Slashdot again I'm getting some work done down here. Just a minute. Just a MINUTE.
One trouble. You do have to put the mike to sleep during family discussions.
"No fear. No envy. No meanness." Liam Clancy