Microsoft achieves new conversational speech recognition milestone: 5.1 percent error rate August 22, 2017 by admin Tweet Microsoft has once again achieved human-like speech recognition, after IBM set a new threshold for it. With a 5.1 percent word error rate, Microsoft is now the front runner in the industry. Read more… Neowin Related Posts:Microsoft, Apple, and more work on speech…Microsoft kills off Vista era Speech Recognition on…PowerPoint on the web will add support for speech…Microsoft Translator Pro is a new speech-to-speech…Microsoft announces four new AI text-to-speech…