Common sense boosts speech software
Posted on March 31, 2005
Common sense boosts speech software:
‘One surprising thing about testing interfaces like this is that sometimes, even if they don’t get the absolutely correct answer, users like them a lot better,’ said Lieberman. ‘This is because they make plausible mistakes, for example ‘tennis clay court’ for ‘tennis player’, rather than completely arbitrary mistakes that a statistical recognizer might make, for example ‘tennis slayer’,’ he said.‘This suggests that there ought to be more research into how to get computers to make better mistakes,’ said Lieberman.
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