From: cpd@cat.pan.net   
      
   "RT"  wrote in message   
   news:4BFD4065.7B3DF15C@hotmail.com...   
   > catpandaddy wrote:   
   >>   
   >> "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.  ;-)   
   >   
   > As you dodge again. Just like a chatbot.   
      
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