Fact · Speech recognition
Juang and Rabiner write in 2005 that most practical speech recognition systems were based on statistical methods developed in the 1980s.
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In the source's own words
“Today, most practical speech recognition systems are based on the statistical framework and results developed in the 1980’s, with significant additional improvements in the 1990’s.”
Automatic Speech Recognition: A Brief History of the Technology Development, B. H. Juang and Lawrence R. Rabiner, Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (author copy, UC Santa Barbara), 2005, Section 5, technology directions in the 1980s and 1990s.
Open the original- What it measures
- The statistical framework they mean includes the hidden Markov model, which the authors name as the most notable development of the decade.
- What it does not show
- A 2005 review by two authors, who write from their own field. It describes the mainstream of the time, not every system.