They basically are using a new (in the context of speech rec) technique that seems to improve accuracy by 16% relative on their test data (and using their code :-)). It's a really great result, but it doesn't change the basic nature of a state of the art speech recognizer at all -- you still need to train and adapt it -- and it still needs lots and lots of data.
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As you might guess, they are not claiming this.
They basically are using a new (in the context of speech rec) technique that seems to improve accuracy by 16% relative on their test data (and using their code :-)). It's a really great result, but it doesn't change the basic nature of a state of the art speech recognizer at all -- you still need to train and adapt it -- and it still needs lots and lots of data.