Microsoft made speech recognition software that's as accurate as humans

Microsoft just made another big advancement in artificial intelligence. Researchers at the company have created speech recognition software that is able to hear language as accurately as humans. The development, detailed in a paper published Monday, marks the most advanced speech recognition software to date, according to Microsoft, who had also set the previous record for speech recognition. In the study, the software had a word error rate of 5.9 percent, which is about the same as that of human transcribers. The research milestone doesn't mean the computer recognized every word perfectly.