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IBM beats Microsoft's word error rate in speech recognition, achieves 5.5%

Usama Jawad — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 11:30:01 +0000

IBM has announced that it has achieved the lowest word error rate in speech recognition, at 5.5%, beating Microsoft which managed 5.9% a few months back. This is still not equivalent to human parity. Read more...

Microsoft achieves lowest word error rate in speech recognition

Usama Jawad — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 14:38:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced that it has achieved the lowest word error rate (WER) in speech recognition in the industry, which bodes well for its AI solutions, Cortana and Skype Translator. Read more...