Just one phrase in a wonder filled post on Google’s new Japanese speech recognition system …
…speech recognition systems are surprisingly similar across different languages…
I bet some Google researcher has a multi-axial plot of the speech recognition attributes of the languages they work with. That will be a great graphic one day soon.
The essay is required reading. How the hell does anyone learn to write Japanese? Yes, I know people do it, but, really, how?
Most of all, this essay is a small measure of what Google does, and why I swear allegiance to the House of Google (3 on Gordon’s scale of evil). These are gray days in America, but we will return …
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