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Pretty much what happened with Speech Recognition for 30 years. That last 10% had to be handled manually. Even if you get 90% right, it still means ever second
by qp11 3y ago
Pretty much what happened with Speech Recognition for 30 years. That last 10% had to be handled manually. Even if you get 90% right, it still means ever second sentence has issues. And as things scale up the costs of all that manual behind the scenes hacking scale up too. We underestimated how many issues involved Ambiguity - where N people see the same thing and have N different interpretations. So you see a whole bunch of Speech Rec companies rising and falling over time.
Now things are pretty mature, but it took decades to get there but there is still a whole bunch of hacks upon hacks behind the scenes. Same story will repeat with each new problem domain.
- radarsat1 3y agoWe use Whisper for automatic translation, supposedly SotA, but we have to fix its output, I would say, very often. It repeats things, translates things for no reason, has trouble with numbers.. it's improved in leaps and bounds but I'd say that speech recognition doesn't seem to be there yet.
- radarsat1 3y ago(Can't edit anymore, but I meant "automatic transcription" above..)