Marchex’s AI-Powered Speech Analytics Sets New Standard, Approaches Human Levels of Accuracy in Consumer to Business Conversations
Driven by investments in data science and deep learning technology,
Marchex’s speech recognition functionality was put to an independently
verified test against several other commercially-available solutions,
based on a series of factors to directly compare capabilities. Using the
same sample audio data from the business conversation domain, the test
measured the word error rate (WER) which tracks the number of words that
are inserted, deleted or substituted in order to discern overall
accuracy of a transcription. The internal
evaluation, which was verified by enterprise technology analyst
Marchex achieved an overall WER of 8.4 percent, which is a 20 percent improvement since 2017, and considerably better compared to other voice recognition systems.- Marchex’s speech analytics solution performed 38 percent more accurately than IBM Watson, 37 percent more accurately than Azure Cognitive Service API, 13 percent more accurately than Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API and more than 11 percent more accurately than Amazon Transcribe API.
Marchex speech analytics technology is nearing parity to human accuracy, which is roughly a 5 percent WER1.
For industries with a significant reliance on phone calls to drive sales, such as the automotive, travel and home services industries, AI-powered conversation analytics technology is critical to delivering sales enhancing personalized solutions. Accuracy plays a significant role in being able to automatically pinpoint the reason why a customer is calling, the outcome of the conversation, and the ability to classify calls in real-time.
“Marchex takes a multi-pronged approach to resolving the issues
associated with human to human interactions in the enterprise business
space,” said
“In recent months we’ve prioritized resources and targeted investments
to further advance our speech technology,” said
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Human WER, as published in the Microsoft Research Blog and IBM Watson’s English Conversational Telephone Speech Recognition by Humans and Machines report. |
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