>It's amazing how accurate Google voice recognition is. I can't say how accurate it is, since I've used it very little so far. But adding my 2c: I first tried

>It's amazing how accurate Google voice recognition is. I can't say how accurate it is, since I've used it very little so far. But adding my 2c: I first tried it some ago (2 years+) on my mid-range (at the time) Android phone, and it was not really usable. Set it aside for a while. Then tried it recently - on the same phone, mind - which is 2 or more years older now, so not recent at all. Surprisingly, it worked a lot better than earlier (based on a small sample of tests, note.) Going to experiment with it more. Something that might be known to many readers here, but mentioning it: Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, has said in the past that by training the voice recognition software on huge amounts of data (at Google scale), they have managed to improve it a lot, by using statistical algorithms. (Similarly for spelling correction suggestions in Google Web Search.) Related: A couple of simple experiments by me with voice recognition (speech-to-text) and speech synthesis (text-to-speech) using Python: 1: https://code.activestate.com/recipes/578839-python-text-to-speech-with-pyttsx/?in=user-4173351 https://code.activestate.com/recipes/578839-python-text-to-s... http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-python-with-pyttsx.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-synthesis-in-python... 2: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-python-speech.html http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/03/speech-recognition-with-py...