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Better At Listening, Voice Recognition Will Reshape Your Relationship With Technology

The ability to understand and process language has improved so much that Xuedong Huang, the chief speech scientist at Microsoft, said his company’s system has reached parity with human transcriptionists.

Voice systems have become more accurate because the artificial intelligence behind them has improved, said Brett Sappington, senior research director at Parks Associates, a Dallas research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology.

From the article "Better At Listening, Voice Recognition Will Reshape Your Relationship With Technology" by Teresa Meek.

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