####Microsoft Research dominates Speech-to-Text
Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition (W. Xiong, J. Droppo, X. Huang, F. Seide, M. Seltzer, A. Stolcke, D. Yu, G. Zweig) [Published: Oct 2016]
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Building a product can be quite simple, but the best ones include insights from human behavior, algorithmic efficiency, and usability. To start, an engineer might build a sophisticated app that uses some cutting edge technology. It is a non-trivial feat which required:
It’s straightforward to see that L1 and L2 regularization both prefer small numbers, but it is harder to see the intuition in how they get there.
