A Comprehensive Evaluation of Incremental Speech Recognition and Diarization for Conversational AI (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems are increasingly powerful and more numerous with several options existing as a service. |
| Approach: | They evaluate the most popular automatic speech recognition systems with metrics and experiments designed with these standards in mind. |
| Outcome: | The most popular ASR systems are Microsoft and IBM, and none are suitable for natural spontaneous conversations in real-time. |
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