That represented a major improvement on the 23 percent error rate the company reported in 2013 and the 8 percent error rate it shared at I/O in 2015. Global speech and voice recognition is estimated to be a $6.19 billion market in 2017 and is expected to rise to $18.3 billion by 2023, according to a Research and Markets report issued today.Īt Google’s annual I/O developer conference back in May, CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company’s speech recognition technology now has a 4.9 percent word error rate, meaning that it transcribes only every 20th word incorrectly. “In addition, it enables users in more countries to use speech to access products and services that up until now have never been available to them.” Your voice is your password
“Our new expanded language support helps Cloud Speech API customers reach more users in more countries for an almost global reach,” continued Aharon.
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It’s worth noting here that the language update also impacts Google’s own consumer products, such as the Gboard Android app and Voice Search smarts. Combined, the new language support opens Google’s speech recognition technology to around one billion people globally. The final piece of the Cloud Speech API update news today is that Google has expanded support from the original 89 languages to 30 new tongues, including Swahili and Amharic, which are spoken by millions in Africa, as well as Bengali, which claims more than 200 million native speakers (Bangladesh and India), Urdu (Pakistan and India), Gujarati (India), and Javanese (Indonesia). Somewhat related to this, Google has also now extended long-form audio support from 80 minutes to 180 minutes, and it may support longer files on a “case-by-base” basis upon request, according to Aharon.
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