29 Mart 2016 | World Fashion Info
Have you ever sworn you heard the lyrics to a song one way, when it turned out to be completely different? Remember the Taylor Swift song where she sings about “Starbucks” lovers? If you didn’t know already, the term for these kinds of misheard lyrics is mondegreens, and they’re very common. In an interesting contest, some of the best professional transcriptionists were pitted against leading voice recognition software to see which could better identify commonly misinterpreted lyrics. To make the battle as fair as possible, a cappella versions of Taylor Swift, Van Halen, Elton John and Brad Paisley songs were selected. The software, IBM Watson, battled two transcriptionists, Colby and Schenae.
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