- Tests showed that Deep Speech outperformed several speech systems–the Google Speech API, wit.ai, Microsoft’s Bing Speech, and Apple Dictation–by over 10%
- Baidu’s is based on a branch of AI called deep learning. The software attempts to mimic, in very primitive form, the activity in layers of neurons in the neocortex
- Ng thinks speech recognition will become even more critical as less literate people use the Internet and prefer to speak instead of write queries.