Artificial intelligence · 2012
Deep speech recognition
Deep networks cut speech recognition errors by about a quarter almost overnight.
Hinton's group with Microsoft, Google and IBM showed that deep networks replacing Gaussian mixtures in acoustic models cut word error rates dramatically. Android voice search switched in 2012, the first mass-market deep learning product.
What it built on 3
What it led to 1
Related measurements
The dashed line marks when it first worked.
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