Visionary CCRA Article "Lost in Digital Translation" is to be published in the Orange County Lawyer Magazine!

9-14-11

CCRA hits another homerun with a publication in the 2011 October/November Orange County Lawyer Magazine that educates the legal community about the risks of voice to text and digital recording in both depositions and court.
THE SCOOP:

CCRA President Elect Early Langley headed up a Voice Recognition research project. Why? A
leading voice-to-text provider, who is attempting to gain a foothold in the legal arena, claimed at a May conference that its technology can produce a transcript that's "almost 100%" accurate. As fate would have it, she has a son, Andy, who's a senior in UC Berkeley's Electrical Engineering Computer Science Department. Around April, he just happened to have written her an e-mail saying, "Mom, you won't have to worry about your job. Check these stats out: Voice to text from TV has a 50% word error rate. And that's from a leading researcher of voice recognition." In addition, the most recent National Institute of Standards and Technology evaluations show the best word error rate posted for multimicrophone speech recognition in a conference room was about 40%.

When the numbers didn't add up, she decided to investigate. A couple of referrals led to a world-renowned expert in automatic speech recognition and understanding, Nelson Morgan, Ph.D. She took her son and visited Morgan at his International Computer Science Institute headquarters in Berkeley, California, where he serves as director.

From that interview and from work on the part of CCRA's team--President Debby Steinman; Past Presidents Arnella Sims, Lesia Mervin and Jan White; Carlos Martinez and Andy Hutchinson--Early Langley wrote "Lost in Digital Translation: Why Voice to Text and Digital Recording Won't Work in Depos or Court."
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