XavierWynne

Ms.Grant

Biology
3rdperiod

ArtificialIntelligenceVs.
Humanintelligence(speechrecognition)

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Introduction
Whatisthedifferencebetweenhumanintelligenceandartificialintelligencein
regardstospeechrecognition?Well,beforeyouareabletounderstandthedifference,
youmustfirstunderstandwhattheseconceptsmean.
AccordingtoDictonary.Reference.comspeechrecognitionisthecomputerized
analysisofspokenwordsinordertoidentifythespeaker,asinsecuritysystems,or
respondtovoicedcommands.ButaccordingtoJimBaumannVoiceRecognitionisthe
processoftakingthespokenwordasaninputtoacomputerprogram.(Baumann,Jim.
"VoiceRecognition."
EncyclopediaofVirtualEnvironments
.N.p.,1993).Artificial
intelligenceisimportant,becauseitispartofthemainargument.
Artificialintelligence
isasubfieldofcomputerscience.Itsgoalistoenablethedevelopmentofcomputersthat
areabletodothingsnormallydonebypeopleinparticular,thingsassociatedwith
peopleactingintelligently.(
Hammond,Kris."WhatIsArtificialIntelligence?"10Apr.
2015).Humanintelligenceisveryexigent,becauseitisoneofthemaincomponentsto
thisdebate.Humanintelligence(thebrain)is

mentalqualitythatconsistsoftheabilities
tolearnfromexperience,adapttonewsituations,understandandhandleabstract
concepts,anduseknowledgetomanipulateonesenvironment.(Sternberg,RobertJ.
"HumanIntelligence|Psychology.2013.)Inregardstowhatisthemaindifference
betweenA.Iandhumanintelligenceasfarasspeechrecognitionisconcernedisthe
abilitytorecognizewhatwordspeoplearesayingandtonotconfusethemwithother
words.

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The topic in depth

ArtificialIntelligencehastobetrainedto
recognizewordsandcontextclues,whilehumanintelligenceis
abletounderstandcontextcluesgiventofigureoutawordora
phrase.SaptarshiPrakashsaidthatForexample,whenI
dictatethesentence,
Iwanttoeatanicecream,
thecomputer
mightaswelltype,
IwanttoeatanIScream.(
Alsowords
like"four"and"for",and"red"and"read").Ahumanbeingissmartenoughtofigureoutthat
IScream
isirrelevantwiththephrase
Iwanttoeatan.
Soitunderstandsthatithastobe
IceCreamwhichisedible.(Prakash,Saptarshi."
Ketchup!:ArtificialIntelligenceVSNatural
Intelligence(SpeechRecognition)
10Feb.2011).Artificialintelligenceisprogramedusing
code,andthecodeisprocessedintowords.SpeechRecognitionSoftwareisthetechnologythat
transformsspokenwordsintoalphanumerictextandnavigationalcommands.(Gohil,Manish
G."ArtificialIntelligenceforSpeechRecognition."Sept.2014.)Humanintelligenceprocesses
speechrecognitiondifferentlyThebraintakesinspeechfromyourearandthroughyour
temporallobe.Thisallowstheaveragehumantobeabletorespond.PeteFarleysays
theUCSF
teamreportsthatthebraindoesnotrespondtotheindividualsoundsegmentsknownas
phonemessuchasthebsoundinboybutisinsteadexquisitelytunedtodetectsimpler
elements,whichareknowntolinguistsasfeatures.Humanintelligenceandartificial
intelligenceprocessspeechdifferentlythroughdifferentprocessesandorganisms.

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Conclusion
Themaindifferencebetweenartificialintelligenceandhumanintelligence(thebrain)
concerningspeechrecognitionisthewaytheyinternalizethewords,ortheyareabletorecognize
thewordsandthecontextclues.Forexample,thehumanbrainprocessesspeechthroughthe
temporallobe.Thecyclestartsfromtheouterearthroughthemiddleearandinthroughtheinner
ear.Thenitgoesthroughthecentralauditorypathways,whichthengoesupthecerebralcortex
tothetemporallobe.Whileartificialintelligenceisshorter,butmorecomplex.Youhaveto
inputacertaincode,.whichmaycomeoutasthewrongwords.Soyouwouldthenhavetorevise
andedityourcode,Itcanthenbecomethecorrectresponseorcorrectwordsandlanguages
spoken.Artificialintelligenceandhumanintelligenceareverydifferentasfarashowthey
consumedifferentwordsspokenandhowtheycomprehendthem.
I.

Hammond,Kris.
"WhatIsArtificialIntelligence?"

Computerworld
.N.p.,10Apr.2015.
Web.13May2015.
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http://www.computerworld.com/article/2906336/whatisartificialintelligence.html
>.

II.

Koroshetz,WalterJ.,M.D.
"BrainBasics:KnowYourBrain.":NationalInstituteof
NeurologicalDisordersandStroke(NINDS).
N.p.,17Apr.2015.Web.16May2015.
<
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/brain_basics/know_your_brain.htm
>.

III.

Prakash,Saptarshi."
Ketchup!:ArtificialIntelligenceVSNaturalIntelligence(Speech
Recognition)."

Ketchup!HS
.N.p.,10Feb.2011.Web.18May2015.
<
http://ketchuphs.blogspot.com/2011/02/artificialintelligencevsnatural.html
>.

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IV.

Baumann,Jim."VoiceRecognition."
EncyclopediaofVirtualEnviorments
.N.p.,1993.
Web.20May2015.
<
http://www.hitl.washington.edu/research/knowledge_base/virtualworlds/EVE/I.D.2.d.
VoiceRecognition.html
>.

V.

Sternberg,RobertJ."HumanIntelligence|Psychology."
EncyclopediaBritannica
Online
.EncyclopediaBritannica,2013.Web.21May2015.
<
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/289766/humanintelligence
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VI.

Gohil,ManishG."ArtificialIntelligenceforSpeechRecognition."
International

MultidisciplinaryResearch
(n.d.):n.pag.
Rhimrj.com
.Sept.2014.Web.24May2015.
<
http://www.rhimrj.com/admin/upload/uploadSEPT14010205.pdf
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