Question for Duncan Campbell re: Word-Spotting Capabilities

[Dave Bird]

In article <199908031031.LAA02861@odin.mimir.com>, Pete Bentley
<pete@sorted.org> writes
>>Word 
>>spotting is not available, but as computational power increases, topic 
>>spotting by running continuous speech recognition engines on a per-channel 
>>basis will become affordable, at first for high value targets
>
>Seems to me that topic spotting is a more useful goal anyway.  Even if 
>you have 100% accuracy in word spotting, you will generate too many
>false positive hits when that word appears out of context (eg "Boy did 
>the Yankees bomb tonight").


 Topic spotting where the transcription is so bad it introduced
 a 70-80% error rate in the words?  Do tell how........


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