From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4BF0B3C4.FEF22197@hotmMOVEail.com...   
   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "RT"  wrote in message   
   >> > 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.   
   >   
   > So, do you have a cite or three that such acing has occurred?   
      
   Regarding speech recognition:  Do you deny that both humans and   
   voice-recognition software hear words okay most of the time but are   
   sometimes thrown off for the same reasons?  I think you can recognize that   
   this is true, and therefore the voice-recognition program would pass the   
   test handily, and it should be a simply matter for you to set up your own   
   test if you only had some initiative of your own.  On the other hand,   
   sometimes it is all too easy to mistake you for an Internet chatbot.  ;-)   
      
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