Microsoft Research, in close collaboration with Geoffrey Hinton’s lab, deployed Deep Neural Networks (DNN) for automatic speech recognition within their core pipelines. By replacing traditional Gaussian Mixture Models with deep feedforward architectures, they achieved a historic 20% reduction in word error rates, initiating the permanent migration of conversational infrastructure onto deep learning.
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