Research Aims to Improve Speech Recognition Software

Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 10:42 in Mathematics & Economics

Anyone who has used an automated airline reservation system has experienced the promise - and the frustration - inherent in today's automatic speech recognition technology. When it works, the computer "understands" that you want to book a flight to Austin rather than Boston, for example. Research conducted by Binghamton University's Stephen Zahorian aims to improve the accuracy of such programs.

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