---
title: "Baidu Announces Breakthrough In Speech Recognition, Claiming To Top Google And Apple"
description: "In a paper published today on arXiv.org site, Ng and 10 members of his Baidu Research team led by research scientist Awni Hannun said they’ve come up with a new method of speech recognition that trumps all other offerings"
date: "2014-12-18"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/baidu-announces-breakthrough-in-speech-recognition-claiming-to-top-google-and-apple"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Future Society"
  - "Google"
tags:
  - "communications"
---

# Baidu Announces Breakthrough In Speech Recognition, Claiming To Top Google And Apple

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- 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.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)