对于黄学东而言，转录技术只是ASR从根本上改变社会的一部分，这些变化已经能从Cortana，Siri和亚马逊的Alexa之类的语音助手中瞥见。“显而易见的是，下一波将让你彻底脱离设备，”他想象着计算技术逐渐植入工作环境中。“在未来的中心，用户界面技术将使人们从设备的束缚中解放出来。”

For Huang, tranion is just one of a whole range of changes ASR is set to provide that will fundamentally change society itself, one that can already be glimpsed in voice assistants like Cortana, Siri, and Amazon’s Alexa. “The next wave, clearly, is beyond the devices that you have to touch,” he says, envisioning computing technology discreetly woven into a range of working environments. “UI technology that can free people from being tethered to the device will be in the front and center.”

然而目前，自动转录器的工程师们还是需要更多的相关用户：例如在最后期限前拼搏的记者，或是想方设法描述一位男性在国会特选委员会上被砸了一脸奶油派的书记员。

For the moment, however, the engineers behind automated transcribers will have to content themselves with more germane users: the journalist sweating a deadline, or the tranionist working out the right way to describe a man being pied in a parliamentary select committee.

重点词汇

transcribe：转录

browser-based：基于浏览器的

Automatic speech recognition：自动语音识别

test set：测试集

internet giant：互联网巨头

anonymized data：匿名数据

user behavior：用户行为

long tail：长尾

AI enthusiasts：人工智能狂热者

power users：超级用户

seed money：种子基金

UI：用户界面