COG SCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6.4: Robotics: Speech Recognition, Dragon Naturallyspeaking, Image Analysis
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According to the turing test, an intelligent computer would render a human unable to distinguish the computer from a human being. No suggestion was made that the computer and the human should share, for example, perceptual abilities. People are capable of image analysis, able to distinguish items in their environment + make sense of them. The design of the robots developed + in operation are not intended to mimic humans. Their purpose is, rather, to perform speci c functions. The motivation may be practical or for research purposes. Rudnicky, 1994: at the time, the most successful current systems [were] ones that limit[ed] themselves to very small vocabularies, on the order of 10 to 20 words . Automatic speech recognition systems (asrs), comprised of ~40,000 words, took dictation of, for example, business letters, but worked w a single speaker in a quiet area. The error rate in some of them reached lows of about 3% to 13%
