---
title: "Google Cuts Transcription Errors by 49% with Neural Networks"
description: "Google engineers announced a big improvement to its Google Voice voicemail transcription service, which relies on artificial intelligence to convert speech to text."
date: "2015-07-24"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Kif Leswing"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/kif_leswing"
url: "https://futurism.com/google-cuts-transcription-errors-by-49-with-neural-networks"
categories:
  - "Artificial Intelligence"
  - "Google"
tags:
  - "artificial intelligence"
---

# Google Cuts Transcription Errors by 49% with Neural Networks

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Transcription.jpg>)

- The improvements are due to an artificial intelligence technique called "long short-term memory deep recurrent neural networks."
- Part of what made the 49 percent reduction in transcription errors possible was better data. Many Google Voice users provided their voicemails to Google for study.
- Recurrent neural networks are great for identifying sequential data -- like that minute-long voicemail your mother left you.