A.I. & Speech Recognition

What is Speech Recognition?

Speech recognition is when a machine or computer program identifies and processes a person’s spoken words and converts them into text displayed on a screen or monitor. The early stages of this technology utilized a…

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What is a Ground-Truth Transcript?

When you’re testing an Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) engine, you need something to determine whether the engine’s textual output is accurate. A measuring stick of accuracy, where the farthest end is 100 percent speech-to-text perfection.…

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Rev at Interspeech 2020: Speaker Diarization Q&A

Interspeech 2020 recently invited Rev’s Director of Speech R&D, Miguel Jette, for an upcoming tutorial discussing how Speaker Diarization is used in the industry. The tutorial session is titled “Neural Models for Speaker Diarization in the context…

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What is WER? What Does Word Error Rate Mean?

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology uses machines and software to identify and process spoken language. It can also be used to authenticate a person’s identity by their voice. This technology has advanced significantly in recent…

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