IBM’s speech recognition system now boasts a 5.5 percent error rate. This milestone is an industry record for conversational speech recognition, according to IBM ...

In the world of speech recognition software, 5.1% is kind of a magic number. Companies that can create software with error rates falling in that ballpark are ...

NEW YORK – IBM unveiled new speech recognition technology on Tuesday that can comprehend the nuances of spoken English, translate it on the fly and even create on-the-fly subtitles for ...

IBM has edged past Microsoft in its latest speech-recognition test, achieving a word error rate of 5.5 percent. That error rate does match the roughly one in 20 words ...

IBM plans to announce Monday that it will contribute some of its speech-recognition software to two open-source software groups. The move is a tactical step by IBM to accelerate the development of ...

IBM and Cisco Thursday announced plans to link some of their voice products to make it easier for organizations to develop and deploy self-service speech applications. The two vendors have been ...

In addition, IBM handed over software tools for speech editing to the Eclipse Foundation. Both donations are valued at about $10 million, said Brian Garr, program director for the call center and ...

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IBM will release the code of various runtime and tool components to the open-source community to make it easier for developers to add speech-recognition capability to Web applications. The company ...