The Unconscionability of AI Disparity - Leor Grebler

For example, speech recognition combined with natural language understanding provides the ability for a service like Alexa or Google Assistant to interpret a voice command so that it can execute it. Even more magical is when you can then execute on a request based on a recognized pattern and do something interesting, like play music. Talking to our homes and surroundings is just the beginning of this seemingly magical experience. What we're starting to see is that AI-based services are reaching human-level error rates. Word Error Rates (WER) for speech transcription (in a perfect environment in English) reached human levels about a year ago.