Your phone
can text 3 times faster if you speak
Speech recognition softwares in
smartphones can compose text messages up to three times faster and more
accurately than humans can type, a study has found.
“Speech
recognition is something that is been promised to us for decades, but it has
never worked well. But it has improved a lot, benefiting from big data and deep
learning to train its neural networks to produce faster, more accurate
results,“ said James Landay , a professor at Stanford University in the US. The
research team devised an experiment that pitted a cloud-based speech
recognition software against 32 texters, aged 19 to 32, using the built-in
keyboard on a smartphone.Half the participants in the study performed the task
in English using the QWERTY keyboard; the other half conducted the test in
their native Mandarin keyboard. For English, speech recognition was three times
faster than typing, and the error rate was 20.4% lower. In Mandarin Chinese,
speech was 2.8 times faster, with an error rate 63.4% lower than typing.
Theexperts
have quantified that speech recognition actually works well and hope it will
encourage engineers to design user interfaces that takes advantage of the
technology.
Source | Times of India | 30 August
2016
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