Microsoft's speech recognition engine listens as well as a human
 

When humans try to transcribe a spoken conversation all in one go, they manage to miss 5.9 percent of what they hear on average. Microsoft announced on Tuesday that, for the first time, they've managed to get a computer to perform that same transcrip...

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