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The revised Ruan paper says upper-bound speech recognition performance has greatly improved compared with prior systems.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“upper-bound speech recognition performance has greatly improved compared to prior systems”
Comparing Speech and Keyboard Text Entry for Short Messages in Two Languages on Touchscreen Phones, Sherry Ruan et al., Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 2018, Abstract.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3161187)- What it measures
- The sentence is part of the revised abstract's discussion of how speech input might see greater uptake.
- What it does not show
- A statement by the authors without a new number. The result depends on the recognizer you use, and the study did not measure current engines.
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