Improved speech recognition spotted on prototype Bing app for WP

Microsoft apparently had a confidential event for its employees earlier this month, wherein it demonstrated a bunch of future technologies that it has been working on. And what we have before us is more than just a sneak preview of a prototype Bing app for Windows Phone by way of a live demo. Microsoft demonstrated a bunch of improvements on the speech recognition feature. On MSFT Kitchen, these improvements are listed as – word error rate reduction, reduction in latency for speech requests and better handling of speech requests in noisy situations.  Click here for full story