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A new speech recognition system can transcribe English or Mandarin about three times faster than humans can type on a smartphone, according to a recent study. SEE ALSO: Mark Zuckerberg's First Stop in China: Baidu Headquarters The study, a collaboration between Stanford University, Baidu and the University of Washington, also found that the system produced 20.4 percent fewer errors than people typing in English and 63.8 percent fewer than people working in Mandarin. "We're putting speech recognition up against people who are really good at this task," study co-author James Landay told Stanford News. The system produced 20.4 percent fewer errors than people typing in English and 63.8 percent fewer than people working in Mandarin.