{"id":29532,"date":"2016-08-30T21:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T04:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/quick-pro-quo-software-writes-text-3x-faster-than-any-human-can"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:44:13","slug":"quick-pro-quo-software-writes-text-3x-faster-than-any-human-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/quick-pro-quo-software-writes-text-3x-faster-than-any-human-can","title":{"rendered":"Quick Pro Quo: Software Writes Text 3x Faster Than Any Human Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IOw4kVrymFs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have discovered that voice recognition software Deep Speech 2 has improved to a point that it has become significantly faster and more accurate at producing text on a mobile device than humans are at typing on a keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, we watched a <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/chinese-artificial-intelligence-team-announces-plans-challenge-googles-alphago\/\" target=\"_blank\">world-renowned Go mastermind<\/a> get pummeled in a complex game by an artificial intelligence (AI). Now, humans are about to lose in yet another battle with the machines\u2014and this time, it\u2019s over typing.<\/p>\n<p>There is a speech recognition software that has improved to the point that it is faster and more accurate at producing text than human typists. That\u2019s according to researchers from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.stanford.edu\/2016\/08\/24\/stanford-study-speech-recognition-faster-texting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stanford University<\/a> and the University of Washington, which ran a study on a new program developed by Chinese internet giant, Baidu.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/quick-pro-quo-software-writes-text-3x-faster-than-any-human-can\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/quick-pro-quo-software-writes-text-3x-fa...human-can\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have discovered that voice recognition software Deep Speech 2 has improved to a point that it has become significantly faster and more accurate at producing text on a mobile device than humans are at typing on a keyboard. Earlier this year, we watched a world-renowned Go mastermind get pummeled in a complex game by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60564,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29532\/revisions\/60564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}