by David Zax, Technology Review
You probably use voice recognition technology already, if in a limited capacity. Maybe you use Google’s voice-activated search, or take advantage of its (somewhat wonky) voice-mail transcriptions in Google Voice. At the office, maybe you use Dragon dictation software. Even if these programs worked perfectly, though (which they don’t) they would still leave something to be desired. Voice recognition software today works in very specialized circumstances—it can typically recognize only one voice at a time, and it performs best when it has reams of data in the archive before tackling a new speech sample. What if we had voice recognition technology that didn’t have so many strictures? What if we had software that was quick and nimble, able to discern one speaker from another on the fly? In other words, what if voice recognition technology was more like the way voice recognition actually works in the real world, in the human brain?
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