# Summary of #hplusroadmap IRC Log (Oct 19, 2016)

* Discussion about knowledge-based speech recognition as an alternative to deep learning approaches, with kanzure suggesting that machine learning hype may be "cargo culting" and sharing papers about rule-based speech recognition systems that claim error rates as low as 4%.

* kanzure shared several academic papers on speech recognition including "A bottom-up modular search approach to large vocabulary continuous speech recognition" and papers on spectrogram reading for acoustic analysis.

* Brief discussion about Clarke.ai, a service for taking notes from calls, with pasky suggesting it might be using human workers (Mechanical Turk) rather than AI to gauge customer interest.

* Conversation about shellcheck (a static analysis tool for shell scripts) and whether it makes sense to write complex scripts in bash versus Python, with fenn noting "hundred-line bash scripts are probably bad."

* Brief mention of "paperbot" functionality, with kanzure noting it "still works under the right conditions."