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November/December 2016

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At Last Count: 20.4%

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That’s how much more accurate smartphone speech recognition software was when typing texts on a mobile phone compared with humans, in a study by Stanford professor of computer science James Landay and collaborators from the University of Washington and Baidu Inc. Speech recognition also typed text three times faster than people did.

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