Google voice search: faster and more accurate

Posted by Ha_im Sak, Andrew Senior, Kanishka Rao, Françoise Beaufays and Johan Schalkwyk - Google Speech Team Back in 2012, we announced that Google voice search had taken a new turn by adopting Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) as the core technology used to model the sounds of a language. These replaced the 30-year old standard in the industry: the Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). DNNs were better able to assess which sound a user is producing at every instant in time,...