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or in turning speech into inputs and so on . The ubiquitous digital assistants found on the world ’ s smartphones offer easy access to such technologies , with the capacity to speak into your phone in lieu of typing now commonplace .
Machine learning is well suited to the task of ASR owing to the nature of audio , as Will Williams , a machine learning researcher at ASR company Speechmatics explains . “ In short , it ' s the learning and mapping from a raw waveform to phonemes or characters . You take a slice of the input audio and
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