astrieanna
Joined 15 years ago
Joined 15 years ago
If the long list of evidence is too long for you, then it's totally worth clicking the "click here" link to jump to the author's summary at the end. The summary is readable and useful by itself -- and it is what you're looking for if you really just wanted him to summarize the research for you instead of telling you about all the relevant studies, one by one.
"Automatic speech recognition is not currently a substitute for human transcription, because computers are unable to use context or meaning to distinguish between similar words and phrases and are not able to recognize or correct errors, leading to faulty output. The best automatic speech recognition boasts that it's 80% to 90% accurate, but that means that, at best, one out of ten words will be wrong or missing, which results in a semantic accuracy rate that's often far lower than 90%, depending on which word it is."
(this is a subset of the answer to "Will speech recognition make CART obsolete?")
There's a lot that can be learned by paying attention to other people and trying to understand what they're thinking. The earlier that someone who's not naturally adept at it realizes that this is important to pay attention to, the earlier they get better at social skills. Some of that can be highlighted for little kids while reading (story) books; paying attention to and asking questions about why the characters do the things in their interactions highlights the idea that other people do things for reasons, and that you can guess what they are (the guessing well is a skill).
Recurse Center alum. (Winter 2013 batch) Currently at Stripe; previously at Google.