From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
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   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "Tim McGaughy"  wrote in message   
   >> > RT wrote:   
   >> >   
   >> >>> Voice recognition is also actually very reliable. They're not things   
   >> >>> that devices can 'barely do'.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Let us know when they pass a Turing test.   
   >> >   
   >> > That's an unfair evaluation when trying to determine how much progress   
   >> > has   
   >> > been made. You expect the performance of a finished product from a work   
   >> > in   
   >> > progress.   
   >>   
   >> I would and still do maintain that voice recognition systems have indeed   
   >> aced the Turing Test, in that they succeed and fail in similar places to   
   >> where human beings also succeed and fail.  Ever meet a human being who   
   >> never   
   >> mis-hears something?   
   >   
   > Do you have a cite or three that such acing has occurred?   
      
   It is a trivial observation that human beings and speech-recognition   
   software both misunderstand spoken words alike, under the same sets of   
   circumstances and for the same reasons.   
      
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