LINGUIST List 13.2113

Fri Aug 16 2002

Media: Article NYT: Speech Recognition

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Karen S. Chung, NYT: speech recognition again

 The Technology section of the August 15, 2002 issue of the New
York Times features an interesting personal take on automatic speech
recognition (ASR) by columnist David Pogue, entitled "Speech
Recognition Follies". The URL:

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/15/technology/circuits/15POGUE-EMAIL.html

 It contains some illuminating examples of words and expressions
that were 'misheard' by the computer. Although they weren't what the
speaker had in mind, I thought the computer made some awfully good
guesses!

 


 Karen Steffen Chung
 National Taiwan University
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