{"id":59844,"date":"2017-06-23T06:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=59844"},"modified":"2017-06-22T14:59:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:59:55","slug":"when-ai-can-transcribe-everything-noone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2017\/06\/23\/when-ai-can-transcribe-everything-noone\/","title":{"rendered":"When AI can transcribe everything [Noone]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2017\/06\/automated-transcription\/530973\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>When AI can transcribe everything<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from theatlantic.com by Greg Noone<br \/>\n<em>Tech companies are rapidly developing tools to save people from the drudgery of typing out conversations\u2014and the impact could be profound.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Despite the recent emergence of browser-based transcription aids, transcription\u2019s an area of drudgery in the modern Western economy where machines can\u2019t quite squeeze human beings out of the equation. That is until last year, when Microsoft built one that could.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is an area that has gripped the firm\u2019s chief speech scientist, Xuedong Huang, since he entered a doctoral program at Scotland\u2019s Edinburgh University. \u201cI\u2019d just left China,\u201d he says, remembering the difficulty he had in using his undergraduate knowledge of the American English to parse the Scottish brogue of his lecturers. \u201cI wished every lecturer and every professor, when they talked in the classroom, could have subtitles.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cThat\u2019s the thing with transcription technology in general,\u201d says Prenger. \u201cOnce the accuracy gets above a certain bar, everyone will probably start doing their transcriptions that way, at least for the first several rounds.\u201d He predicts that, ultimately, automated transcription tools will increase both the supply of and the demand for transcripts. \u201cThere could be a virtuous circle where more people expect more of their audio that they produce to be transcribed, because it\u2019s now cheaper and easier to get things transcribed quickly. And so, it becomes the standard to transcribe everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When AI can transcribe everything &#8212; from theatlantic.com by Greg Noone Tech companies are rapidly developing tools to save people from the drudgery of typing out conversations\u2014and the impact could be profound. 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