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28 January 2003 |
Says their chief scientist: "we are to conversational speech what SpeechWorks was to the core engine in 1996"
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Skeptical call center managers, or small and mid-size enterprises (SMEs) for which CPE costs are prohibitive, should investigate outsourcing options to take advantage of speech recognition solutions with limited up-front investment. For example, an outsourcing customer might pay $10,000 a month instead of $500,000 upfront for a software license.
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Education authorities will no doubt ban mobiles that are switched on in exams. But will this work? Longer-term, if many of our phones, watches, etc get networked, what will happen? It becomes impossible to firewall the exam room (unless we take our exams in Faraday cages?). Instead, maybe exams will need to shift away from measuring what-facts-you-know and towards how-do-you-think/problem-solve.
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11:41:58 AM
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