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June 17, 2013 08:31 pm GMT

Microsoft Improves Windows Phone Voice Recognition: 2X Faster, 15% More Accurate

5270.DNN_BlogImageGoogle may have acquired Geoffrey Hinton's DNNresearch and is now using his technologies to power its Google+ photo search features, but the academic work Hinton did on deep neural networks (DNN) is now also helping Microsoft to improve its speech recognition systems. Microsoft today announced that it is using DNNs to double the speed of its speech recognition engine for Windows Phone while bringing down its word-error rate by 15 percent. Bing Voice Search, the company says, now also works far better in noisy conditions.

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