Microsoft's system for speech recognition achieved a 5.1% error rate, its best performance to date, bringing it to par with human transcribers.

Facial recognition technology is mistakenly targeting four out of five innocent people as wanted suspects, according to findings from the University of Essex. The report -- which was commissioned ...

IBM has edged past Microsoft in its latest speech-recognition test, achieving a word error rate of 5.5 percent. That error rate does match the roughly one in 20 words ...

Microsoft has once again achieved human-like speech recognition, after IBM set a new threshold for it. With a 5.1 percent word error rate, Microsoft is now the front ...