[ExI] AI milestones

[Stefano Vaj]

On 1 March 2012 06:51, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:

> There are commercial OCR engines that scan well over 99% accuracy for
> typeset text...
>

This is an impressive achievement, and sounds great, but let us keep in
mind that 99% in OCR accuracy means more than one mistype each two lines,
some of which cannot be resolved on the basis of the context alone.

I was once a testimonial, as a semi-famous lawyer, for IBM Voice Type
Dictation, and the dictation system in comparison have the advantage of
recognising not single phonemes, but basically entire words, and on the
basis of the preceding and subsequent ones ("trigrammes"). OTOH, mistakes
accordingly become harder to identify, especially if one does not so on the
fly.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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