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With speech the main problem (I have felt) is that mistskes are difficult to correct. I haven't yet seen an input system which would combine speech with touch

With speech the main problem (I have felt) is that mistskes are difficult to correct. I haven't yet seen an input system which would combine speech with touch in nice way.

JoshTriplett 10y ago
https://www.keithv.com/pub/sd/speechdasher.pdf https://www.keithv.com/pub/sd/speechdasher.pdf
aesthetics1 10y ago
I'm with you on this one. I had to set a reminder to "Get the soy milk", and Google's speech recognition picked up "Get this white milk". I knew what it meant so I just saved the reminder instead of correcting it. Unfortunately I cannot rely on speech to send texts, dictate emails, or have any other interaction with other people.
Eridrus 10y ago
It's surprising that they don't show you a screen with the transcription and let you easily select bits you want to re-transcribe. Text selection on phones usually sucks, but that's only because you need to disambiguate between clicks and highlighting; if you had a dedicated screen that assumes a user wants to highlight a section it should be a lot more responsive.
rossjudson 10y ago
Don't correct. Just keep talking. I found speech recognition to be useful mostly for brain dumps. I've found I tend to think best when explaining or talking. I used to bring along a voice recorder on long drives, capture what I was thinking, then run it through voice recognition later. It was often a garbled mess, but usefully captured a lot of thinking. Modern recognition systems would do a lot better. Yeah, I should try that again.
- jpalomaki 10y ago
  This is a good point. I've been using the same strategy for taking notes in meeting where there is lots of talk. Just write down stuff, not concentrating on format or content. Then after the meeting go through the notes and clarify. Trouble is, writing even quick notes, is difficult to do if you also need to talk and think at the same time. Probably you could build some neat solution around this. Like a speakerphone style device with array of microphones to make it easier to identify who is speaking and pick up the words. Or maybe a regular smartphone is enough. The device/app would then just transcript what is spoken and annotate it with names. Compared to audio recording the benefit would be that going through the written raw stuff is much faster and if you were present, then you can probably recall the stuff even if the transcription is not perfect. Also it might be more socially acceptable to use this solution that to record the meetings.
skoocda 10y ago
Czech out my project, Spreza. We're not targeting voice input, per se, but instead automated transcription. Nonetheless, the correction issue persists in both use cases. We solve it via a homonym suggestion drop-down box. Double-click an error and replace with the correct word.
- Piskvorrr 10y ago
  A Czech here, hello! Talk about Muphry's law :D

With speech the main problem (I have felt) is that mistskes are difficult to correct. I haven't yet seen an input system which would combine speech with touch in nice way.

JoshTriplett 10y ago

https://www.keithv.com/pub/sd/speechdasher.pdf https://www.keithv.com/pub/sd/speechdasher.pdf

aesthetics1 10y ago

I'm with you on this one. I had to set a reminder to "Get the soy milk", and Google's speech recognition picked up "Get this white milk". I knew what it meant so I just saved the reminder instead of correcting it. Unfortunately I cannot rely on speech to send texts, dictate emails, or have any other interaction with other people.

Eridrus 10y ago

It's surprising that they don't show you a screen with the transcription and let you easily select bits you want to re-transcribe. Text selection on phones usually sucks, but that's only because you need to disambiguate between clicks and highlighting; if you had a dedicated screen that assumes a user wants to highlight a section it should be a lot more responsive.

rossjudson 10y ago

Don't correct. Just keep talking. I found speech recognition to be useful mostly for brain dumps. I've found I tend to think best when explaining or talking. I used to bring along a voice recorder on long drives, capture what I was thinking, then run it through voice recognition later. It was often a garbled mess, but usefully captured a lot of thinking. Modern recognition systems would do a lot better. Yeah, I should try that again.

jpalomaki 10y ago
This is a good point. I've been using the same strategy for taking notes in meeting where there is lots of talk. Just write down stuff, not concentrating on format or content. Then after the meeting go through the notes and clarify. Trouble is, writing even quick notes, is difficult to do if you also need to talk and think at the same time. Probably you could build some neat solution around this. Like a speakerphone style device with array of microphones to make it easier to identify who is speaking and pick up the words. Or maybe a regular smartphone is enough. The device/app would then just transcript what is spoken and annotate it with names. Compared to audio recording the benefit would be that going through the written raw stuff is much faster and if you were present, then you can probably recall the stuff even if the transcription is not perfect. Also it might be more socially acceptable to use this solution that to record the meetings.

skoocda 10y ago

Czech out my project, Spreza. We're not targeting voice input, per se, but instead automated transcription. Nonetheless, the correction issue persists in both use cases. We solve it via a homonym suggestion drop-down box. Double-click an error and replace with the correct word.

Piskvorrr 10y ago
A Czech here, hello! Talk about Muphry's law :D