Posts Tagged ‘Texting’
Stanford University’s Experiment Shows Writing Via Speech Recognition Is Now Up To Three Times Faster And More Accurate Than Typing (Video)
September 7, 2016
You’ve watched the Star Trek shows, or any number of sci-fi programs or movies where people talk to computers in natural language… and the computer UNDERSTANDS and responds QUICKLY? Well, in the real world, we are getting there fast! Stanford ran an experiment that compared the speed and accuracy of computers producing the printed word from voice sources (e.g. people speaking) vs. typing.
In a recent experiment, Stanford researchers found that Baidu’s speech recognition software composes text messages three times faster and is more accurate than human typists.
Incredible!
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Tags: Baidu, James Landay, speech recognition, Stanford, Stanford University, Text, Texting, typist | 
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Awkward! Jimmy Fallon And Aziz Ansari Read Some Of The Worst First Texts Ever Sent (Video)
June 18, 2015
Aziz Ansari is already dead funny, but put him on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon; and best believe some laugh-out-loud moments are about to happen. Aziz was on talking about research he did for his book of insights about online dating. Great show, but check out this particularly funny bit that features Jimmy and Aziz ‘analyzing’ some text fails de amore.
