AKA: SpeechRecognition.
Someday (when?) computers will automatically generate transcripts of audio conversation, recorded or in real-time. This will allow us to tele/videoconference while making it easier to generate textual summaries. Textual summaries are better than just the audio or video recording itself because they take less time to read.
SpeechToText could also be helpful for quickly reworking in an AudioWiki.
| 95% accuracy | someone who was there can summarize or correct? |
| 99% accuracy | readable text transcripts |
| 100% accuracy | beyond human-level speech-to-text capabilities |
BayleShanks heard a few years before 2005 that you can increase accuracy by making the problem simpler by one of three approaches:
See also TextToSpeech?, VoiceRecognition (recognizing individual's voice,) WikiCitiesFuture:Speech_recognition
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