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055: What’ll be the Impacts of Perfect Speech Recognition?
055: What’ll be the Impacts of Perfect Speech Recognition?
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
May 21, 2015
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Podcast episode
Description
In this week’s episode, we consider the rapid progress and recent impressive demos in the realm of speech recognition technology. We consider the difference between transcribing and understanding language, and work out a thought experiment of what might change when full transcription is widely and cheaply available. We talk about the challenges facing current generation […]
Released:
May 21, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode
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