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Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition (robertfortner.posterous.com)
9 points by Rexxar on Feb 16, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Particularly relevant given Watson, who crushed his Jeopardy competition on night two, is being fed the answers / questions in text form rather than intepreting Alex's speech.

I wonder if, subjected to speech recognition as well, the playing field may have been leveled and the criticism of Watson 'electronically controlling the buzzer timing' been reduced?





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