One thing I see missing is "conversational smarts".
People mishear a certain fraction of what they hear and they'll ask you to clarify what you said.
You could have superhuman performance at tasks like Switchboard and still have something embarrassingly bad in the field because the real task (having a conversation) is not trained for in the competitions with canned training sets.
People mishear a certain fraction of what they hear and they'll ask you to clarify what you said.
You could have superhuman performance at tasks like Switchboard and still have something embarrassingly bad in the field because the real task (having a conversation) is not trained for in the competitions with canned training sets.