055: What’ll be the Impacts of Perfect Speech Recognition?

Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel

• Episode: 055: What’ll be the Impacts of Perfect Speech Recognition?
• Website: Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/reviewthefuture
• Duration: 01:02:33
• Published: 2015-05-21 02:06

In this week’s episode, we consider the rapid progress and recent impressive demos in the realm of speech recognition technology. We consider the difference between transcribing and understanding language, and work out a thought experiment of what might change when full transcription is widely and cheaply available. We talk about the challenges facing current generation […]