People Often Pronounce A Word Differently GMAT Critical Reasoning

Question: People often pronounce a word differently when asked to read written material aloud than when speaking spontaneously. These differences may cause problems for those who develop computers that recognize speech. Usually the developers “train” the computers by using samples of written material read by the people who will be using the computer.

The observations above provide most evidence for the conclusion that

(A) It will be impossible to develop computers that decode spontaneous speech.
(B) When reading written material, people who have different accents pronounce the same word in the same way as one another.
(C) Computers may be less reliable in decoding spontaneous speech than in decoding samples that have been read aloud.
(D) A “trained” computer never correctly decodes the spontaneous speech of a person whose voice sample was used to train it.
(E) Computers are now able to interpret oral speech without error.

“People often pronounce a word differently when asked to read written material aloud than when speaking spontaneously” – is a GMAT Critical question. This particular GMAT Critical Reasoning topic has been taken from the book ‘GMAT Official Guide Verbal Review, 2016 Edition’. This weakens the argument type of the GMAT CR question. To answer the question, a candidate can either find a piece of evidence that would weaken the argument or have logical flaws in the argument. GMAT critical reasoning tests the logical and analytical skills of the candidates. This topic requires candidates to find the strengths and weaknesses of the argument, or find the logical flaw in the argument. The GMAT CR section contains 10 -13 GMAT critical reasoning questions out of 36 GMAT verbal questions.

Answer: C

Explanation: GMAT critical reasoning tests the reasoning skills along with the candidate's logical and analytical thinking abilities. The candidate has to deduce the correct option by finding the logically correct argument.

Let us check an assumption on which the argument depends:

(A) The option is the most extreme, it's not given that we cannot build at all, and nothing about the building of computers according to problems is discussed in the argument.
(B) Different accent people are not our concern here, the same person's different pronunciation is the context here.
(C) Correct. This can be concluded from the argument that computers are going to have a tough time decoding spontaneous speech as it's different from what has been given.
(D) Never is an extreme word to use. It cannot be stated for sure that a trained computer will never correctly decode the spontaneous speech of a person. This is not correct.
(E) This option is against the argument, as it says there is no problem with the oral speech, it's not the conclusion

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