"They don't have to be able to understand what is said--that's a different problem altogether."
Actually, it seems to me that speech recognition and speech understanding are part of the same problem. Today, SR systems are quite good at creating grammatically correct sentences from speech. The fact is that in many cases, the same syllables can translate to many correct sentences and you need the context to make a choice. That's where your computer kind of needs to be aware of subject of conversation.
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- Hey, John, imagine a...
- Shut up!
- beowulf..
- I won't say it twice!
- cluster...
- *bang*
True enough. You also remind me of this lovely levy on blank audio recording media we have in Canada.
Your comment wasn't funny so I'm sorry, but you really are exited.
$1 billion/80 lines = $12.5 million/line Said SCO's McBride: "These 80 lines of code contained the key to the meaning of the universe."
"They don't have to be able to understand what is said--that's a different problem altogether." Actually, it seems to me that speech recognition and speech understanding are part of the same problem. Today, SR systems are quite good at creating grammatically correct sentences from speech. The fact is that in many cases, the same syllables can translate to many correct sentences and you need the context to make a choice. That's where your computer kind of needs to be aware of subject of conversation.