&quot;To put that in context, this is in my opinion — and to the best of our lab’s knowledge — the best system at transcribing Mandarin voice queries in the world.&quot;<p>There is some data about this claim here:
<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;baidu-claims-deep-learning-breakthrough-with-deep-speech&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gigaom.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;12&#x2F;18&#x2F;baidu-claims-deep-learning-bre...</a><p>Anyone here that has actually used their system and compared it to others?<p>The data looks impressive, but I am a bit skeptical of this claim, because I compared the Baidu OCR API for Chinese character recognition with the one from Microsoft recently. And I was disappointed. In many cases they were just as good as Microsoft&#x27;s litte OCR dll that ships with Windows 10 [1]. Of course, OCR and speech recognition are somewhat different fields, but if anyone is an expert for Chinese language, then it should be Baidu.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.a9t9.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;baidu-ocr-api.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.a9t9.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;09&#x2F;baidu-ocr-api.html</a>