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Date posted: 31/08/2006 Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are using custom computer chips to tackle a problem in speech recognition that software largely hasn't been able to solve. "It's time to liberate speech recognition from the unreasonable limitations of software," Rutenbar said here Tuesday at the Hot Chips conference. He likened the situation to the now-widespread use of special-purpose hardware for graphics. Faster chip-based speech recognition will enable video players to search rapidly for Arnold Schwarzenegger saying "Hasta la vista, baby," in a movie, he said. And lower power consumption will enable a cell phone to take dictated notes. The system recognized several short sentences at about twice the speed it took for researchers to speak them. At the same time, its accuracy was about the same as that of Carnegie Mellon's Sphinx speech recognition software. Rutenbar said the researchers estimate their first-generation custom chip approach will be nearly twice the rate of regular speech for a 5,000-word vocabulary. See the full Story via external site: news.com.com Most recent stories in this category (Sensors): 22/05/2013: New study finds blind people have the potential to u se their ‘inner bat’ to locate objects |
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