Subject: Miss Herd Lyrics From: Kevin Austin <kevin.austin@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 09:03:16 -0400It's not only phones. Google: song lyrics misunderstood for printed texts. Best wishes Kevin > > Dear List, >> >> I know that speech recognition is a bit off-topic here, but I don't know >> of a more proper place to ask this. A reviewer wrote to a paper of >> mine that "the fact that better phone recognition does not necessarily >> mean better word recognition is already known, and people have been >> talking about it very frequently. This should be made clear and perperly >> referenced in the paper". Unfortunately, I'm personally sure that I've >> never seen this written down, because it would have saved me a lot of >> work -- but, unfortunately, I had to learned it from my own failures, >> so I'm sure I won't be able to recall any references for this. I'm also >> unable to figure out how to turn this thing into a reasonable Google >> search term (actually, I've just managed to find a reference for just the >> opposite - that "better phone recognition undoubtedly leads to better word >> recognition"). So, if anyone can tell me any paper stating or showing >> results that "better phone recognition does not necessarily mean better >> word recognition", I would be very grateful. >> Thanks, >> >> Laszlo Toth >> Hungarian Academy of Sciences * >> Research Group on Artificial Intelligence * "Failure only begins >> e-mail: tothl@xxxxxxxx * when you stop trying" >> http://www.inf.u-szeged.hu/~tothl * >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 07:16:41 -0400 >> From: Christine Rankovic <rankovic@xxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: reference needed (ASR) >> >> The statement of the reviewer--that better phone recognition does not mean >> better word recognition--is wrong. It is possible that the reviewer could >> support this statement with data from poorly conducted speech recognition >> tests like, for example, those conducted with an inadequate number of speech >> items, or when mean scores comprise scores of too few listeners. >> > > Christine Rankovic