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by paganel 5596 days ago
> So who wants to build a real Q/A site based on this? Call it hal-18000.

You'd have to learn it to deal with thick accents like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FFRoYhTJQQ . Honestly, I don't know if that's possible, no matter how much training you'd put into the machine.
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khafra 5596 days ago
Natural Language Processing != Voice Recognition.
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paganel 5596 days ago
> Natural Language Processing != Voice Recognition

This is what I don't get, why should be "language processing" tied to written text? Part of the answer I know, because it's easier for computers to parse, but other than that it doesn't make sense.

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gloob 5596 days ago
Speech recognition is speech recognition. Different problem entirely.
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