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RCR Wireless News, April, 2002 by Mooney, Elizabeth V.
NEW YORK-Depending on the task chosen, today's voice-recognition technology is worse than the human ear and brain by a factor of anywhere from one to 10, but IBM Corp. plans to achieve parity between the natural and the synthetic by the end of this decade. Big Blue has dedicated 100 of its 3,000 research scientists and engineers to its newly launched "Super Human Speech Recognition" initiative.
The goal is to reduce the error rate in artificial voice recognition by 25 percent annually so that it approaches zero in 2010. Well before that, possibly later this year, "the key next big thing will be multimodal technology, a mixture of voice and data, listening to words and looking at information," said Nigel Beck, director of IBM Voice Systems. ...
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