Fact · Speech recognition
Lippmann's 1997 paper reviews past work comparing modern speech recognition systems with humans, to see how far the technology has moved toward human-like performance.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“This paper reviews past work comparing modern speech recognition systems and humans to determine how far recent dramatic advances in technology have progressed towards the goal of human-like performance.”
Speech recognition by machines and humans, Richard P. Lippmann, Speech Communication, vol. 22, pp. 1-15, 1997, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The review gathers comparisons across six speech corpora, which is why its numbers appear in several histories of the field.
- What it does not show
- The systems it reviews are from the 1990s. Its results describe that period, not current models.