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IBM Strives For 'Superhuman' Speech Tech

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fansubbing-in-jeopardy dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Which ... by jcupitt65 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Or I can wreck a nice beach versus I can recognise speech.

    Sometimes you need rather a large context to disambiguate: is this sentence part of a discussion on shore-front management, or spoken language understanding?