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Tuesday, June 13, 2006

IBM Hires 100+ Speech Researchers?

In the recent past we've posted and speculated about the fact that Yahoo and Google have hired a number of speech folks over the past year or so. This is the first I've heard about IBM beefing up big time in the speech area, at least in the recent past? Not sure who they might be, though we are aware of some who have left IBM recently. Hmmm...

The success of some of these limited-application voice recognition systems has recently prompted the big software heavyweights, Microsoft and IBM, to make further investments. IBM has hired more than a hundred extra speech technology researchers, with the aim of developing a system capable of matching the human level of speech recognition by 2010. And Bill Gates recently said that "we [Microsoft] aim to have computer systems capable of matching a human level of speech recognition by 2011"


Read the ZDNet article this quote was taken from.

by spkydog @ 7:23:00 AM   Bookmark and Share
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At 10:46 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

These companies have a funny way of counting "speech researchers". Often, those counts include professional services types (dialog designers, grammar developers, etc). I highly doubt IBM hired 100+ experts on hidden markov models :)

 

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