"To put that in context, this is in my opinion — and to the best of our lab’s knowledge — the best system at transcribing Mandarin voice queries in the world."
Anyone here that has actually used their system and compared it to others?
The data looks impressive, but I am a bit skeptical of this claim, because I compared the Baidu OCR API for Chinese character recognition with the one from Microsoft recently. And I was disappointed. In many cases they were just as good as Microsoft's litte OCR dll that ships with Windows 10 [1]. Of course, OCR and speech recognition are somewhat different fields, but if anyone is an expert for Chinese language, then it should be Baidu.
There is some data about this claim here: https://gigaom.com/2014/12/18/baidu-claims-deep-learning-bre...
Anyone here that has actually used their system and compared it to others?
The data looks impressive, but I am a bit skeptical of this claim, because I compared the Baidu OCR API for Chinese character recognition with the one from Microsoft recently. And I was disappointed. In many cases they were just as good as Microsoft's litte OCR dll that ships with Windows 10 [1]. Of course, OCR and speech recognition are somewhat different fields, but if anyone is an expert for Chinese language, then it should be Baidu.
[1] http://blog.a9t9.com/2015/09/baidu-ocr-api.html