English speech recognition is harder than Romance languages due to orthography
Evan Macmillan · Evan Macmillan, Gridspace // How Machines Enter The Conversation (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Sep 14, 2015 · at 17:35
Evan Macmillan, founder and CEO of Gridspace, explains the challenge of multi-language voice processing at Data Driven NYC.
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“English was actually harder than many romantic languages because the orthography in English, it means it's like how, how words get written and then said are, there's a better connection in romantic languages than English.”
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