Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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> SpinVox examines dossier claims
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> | Voice-to-text company SpinVox is under pressure after a dossier,
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This story is actually quite funny. It was more than "financial
irregularities. It is alleged that they faked ASR (automatic speech
recognition) results by having the voice transmissions relayed to call
centres outside of Europe and being transcribed there by humans and then
sent back as the results of their software.
As for the patents, assuming they are using stochastic methods (HMM's and
the like) these areas have been patented to death. Having worked in the
field (ASR) and still doint it to some extent, I doubt very much they'll
have a usable system with that kind of approach.
Attila
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