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Launch of Khmer Automatic Speech Recognition Empowered by Artificial Intelligence.

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Khmer automatic speech recognition launched
Khmer Times
June 14, 2021

THE Ministry of Post and Telecommunications has announced the launch of Khmer Automatic Speech Recognition empowered by artificial intelligence. The program was developed by a group of young researchers of the Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology. The program, which can be used on both Android and iOS devices, can automatically translate speeches and voice messages in the forms of WAV, Mp3, M4a and OGG to texts in Khmer language. The program's accuracy is about 90 percent.
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Quite amazing what AI can do these days. [A little off topic but...] My friend is a teacher and showed me a website recently where students can input a couple a sentences, just to give the computer an idea as to what the subject matter is, tell the computer how long the essay has to be, click a button, and watch the AI write their entire essay for them. I'm not talking about copying and pasting bits that it finds off the internet, I'm talking original, unique, impossible to detect that it wasn't written by a human text. He told me he knows that some of his students use this technology but there's no way he can prove it.

Apparently almost all news articles you read these days have been written either wholly or partly by AI. Anyone who uses speech-to-text interacts with AI - it's not just writing what it hears you say, the AI will make a decision as to whether what it thinks you said make sense, and if it doesn't, it will best-guess what it thought you probably said.

Apps like this one in the OP don't surprise me and they will only get better very quickly. There will soon be a time when AI translation is so good, there will be no need for language schools and teachers. We will literally put an earpiece in our ears and the AI will translate everything being said in real time.

All those English teachers out there - watch out!
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xandreu wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:32 am Quite amazing what AI can do these days. [A little off topic but...] My friend is a teacher and showed me a website recently where students can input a couple a sentences, just to give the computer an idea as to what the subject matter is, tell the computer how long the essay has to be, click a button, and watch the AI write their entire essay for them. I'm not talking about copying and pasting bits that it finds off the internet, I'm talking original, unique, impossible to detect that it wasn't written by a human text. He told me he knows that some of his students use this technology but there's no way he can prove it.

Apparently almost all news articles you read these days have been written either wholly or partly by AI. Anyone who uses speech-to-text interacts with AI - it's not just writing what it hears you say, the AI will make a decision as to whether what it thinks you said make sense, and if it doesn't, it will best-guess what it thought you probably said.

Apps like this one in the OP don't surprise me and they will only get better very quickly. There will soon be a time when AI translation is so good, there will be no need for language schools and teachers. We will literally put an earpiece in our ears and the AI will translate everything being said in real time.

All those English teachers out there - watch out!
That day can't come quick enough. All those language teachers teaching kids to pass exams, not to speak the language.

I notice the article doesn't mention the name of the app or where you can get it. Perhaps it is more aspirational than reality and that got lost in the translation.
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xandreu wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:32 am Apps like this one in the OP don't surprise me and they will only get better very quickly. There will soon be a time when AI translation is so good, there will be no need for language schools and teachers. We will literally put an earpiece in our ears and the AI will translate everything being said in real time.

All those English teachers out there - watch out!
That's at least a decade or two away. Current forms of AI are extremely inefficient and require loads of energy and processor time. Squeezing that into an earpiece is beyond current technology.
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xandreu wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:32 am Quite amazing what AI can do these days. [A little off topic but...] My friend is a teacher and showed me a website recently where students can input a couple a sentences, just to give the computer an idea as to what the subject matter is, tell the computer how long the essay has to be, click a button, and watch the AI write their entire essay for them. I'm not talking about copying and pasting bits that it finds off the internet, I'm talking original, unique, impossible to detect that it wasn't written by a human text. He told me he knows that some of his students use this technology but there's no way he can prove it.

Apparently almost all news articles you read these days have been written either wholly or partly by AI. Anyone who uses speech-to-text interacts with AI - it's not just writing what it hears you say, the AI will make a decision as to whether what it thinks you said make sense, and if it doesn't, it will best-guess what it thought you probably said.

Apps like this one in the OP don't surprise me and they will only get better very quickly. There will soon be a time when AI translation is so good, there will be no need for language schools and teachers. We will literally put an earpiece in our ears and the AI will translate everything being said in real time.

All those English teachers out there - watch out!
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Dr. Ifter wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:15 pm Here it is for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... n_US&gl=US
What is it called? That link doesn't work for me.
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Kammekor wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:23 am
xandreu wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 1:32 am Apps like this one in the OP don't surprise me and they will only get better very quickly. There will soon be a time when AI translation is so good, there will be no need for language schools and teachers. We will literally put an earpiece in our ears and the AI will translate everything being said in real time.

All those English teachers out there - watch out!
That's at least a decade or two away. Current forms of AI are extremely inefficient and require loads of energy and processor time. Squeezing that into an earpiece is beyond current technology.
I was thinking more of the phone doing the work and sending the results to the earpiece, or even the phone sending the work over the internet to be processed, much like voice dictation does now.

Don't fool yourself into thinking this is years away. We're pretty much there already, as this app and similar apps like it have shown. It's just a case of someone coming along and putting everything together in a neat package, much like Apple is known to do.

The huge global language learning industry and the millions it employs is just as much as risk of AI technology as any other industry. And it will happen sooner than you think.
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John Bingham wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:13 pm
Dr. Ifter wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:15 pm Here it is for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... n_US&gl=US
What is it called? That link doesn't work for me.

Khmer ASR - Automatic Speech Recognition
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Dr. Ifter wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:35 pm
John Bingham wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 4:13 pm
Dr. Ifter wrote: Mon Jun 14, 2021 3:15 pm Here it is for Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... n_US&gl=US
What is it called? That link doesn't work for me.

Khmer ASR - Automatic Speech Recognition
I ran two tests with it.

Single words works fine, about 90% accuracy.

When talking sentences it's a complete fail. Inviting someone to eat rice with you leads to 'dreaming of seeing someone continue' for instance.
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