Speech Recognition
topic on 3 shows · 6 statements across 5 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
the MAD Podcast 
the a16z Podcast
6 statements about Speech Recognition, every show
Zeghidour: Deep learning's first major success was speech recognition, preceding AlexNet
“Actually the really first big success in deep learning was speech recognition. We've worked from Geoffrey Hinton himself.”
Zeghidour: Speech AI was largely considered a solved problem at Google Brain in 2019
“At that time, it was interesting because so I joined working on speech in Google Brain, and there were almost nobody working on speech in Google Brain. It was not considered vibrant research topic. It was like a product topic. A lot of people were saying, oh, …”
Shum: Microsoft AI surpassed human transcribers with 5.1% error rate
“In speech, ah, there's this very standard dataset called the switchboard dataset that is really recording of two, ah, from two sides and, ah, phone conversations. Ah, two years ago, we accomplished the 5.1% of the error rate. Ah, that is really, really, ah, am…”
Chen: YouTube auto-subtitled over one billion videos using AI
“It's the same technology that allows YouTube to subtitle their videos. Which they've done for a billion YouTube videos with no human involvement.”
Speech recognition could be a solved problem within a few years
“I sincerely think there's a chance that over the next few years we're going to regard speech recognition as a solved problem.”