Hank: accurate speech recognition will arrive before long (2010)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2010-04-05) · owner: Hank
In April 2010 Hank said that while YouTube's mis-captioned snippets are funny now, it probably won't be long before technology gets speech recognition right. No later video revisits the forecast.
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About: speech recognition
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-04-05 | predicted | Hank forecasts that it probably won't be long before speech recognition works. (hedged) | Google in your Brain 00:03:08 |
What is said about it
2 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says recognizing which words are said and understanding what they mean strung into a sentence are completely different tasks, and the second is even harder. — 00:01:27
- 2010-04-05 · Google in your Brain — Hank says 100% accurate speech recognition in two languages would make subtitling conversations on handheld, in-ear or in-eye devices trivial, though machine translation would stay inaccurate, as Google Translate shows. — 00:02:39