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Monday, 3 October 2016

BAIDU'S VOICE TO TEXT TRANSCRIPTION APPLICATION; SWIFT AND ACCURATE.




It’s the 21st century and everyone wants things done with the most ease and minimal effort.  Even messaging. If you are tired of typing your messages like some kind of 20th century doofus, you'll be glad to know an Android  keyboard designed from the ground up to work around your voice is being released today.
The app comes courtesy of Baidu, often referred to as the Google of China. The company teamed up with Stanford University for a study  that showed its speech recognition technology was three times faster than typing in English and with an error rate 20.4 percent lower.
To get this result, Baidu's Deep Speech 2 tech competed against 32 texters aged 19 to 32. Half of those were Chinese, with the study finding Baidu's speech recognition was 2.8 times faster than texters typing in Mandarin, and had an error rate 63.4 percent lower. Yeah you heard right. 63.4% compared to some other voice recognition keyboards that don’t even measure up to 20% accuracy. They say it’s almost three (3) times faster than typing on keyboard…wow!
Voice recognition in keyboards isn't new. Google Keyboard has offered voice input for years. But Baidu's app, promises to offer a more realized version of the feature. The company said an early user rapped "Rapper's Delight" and the app was able to transcribe it perfectly. I believe it’s worth testing. Don’t you?

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