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Mistakes in understanding speech are common even among humans. My wife and I have to repeat and clarify ourselves fairly frequently in our day to day conversati
by joemag 9y ago
Mistakes in understanding speech are common even among humans. My wife and I have to repeat and clarify ourselves fairly frequently in our day to day conversations. She even jokes at times that I must check my hearing, because I often mishear what she said, while she thought she was being perfectly clear.
I think where computers fall short is in two areas:
1) The rate of errors hasn’t hit the inflection point of being comparable to day-to-day intra-human interaction, and
2) There is no good mechanism for detecting and correcting errors. At least, none that I’ve seen.
That second one is important. When I hear my wife ask me “Please, hand me a tractor”, I realize that I must’ve misheard, and ask her to clarify “what?” With speech recognition, I either have to manually re-read and modify recognized text, or cancel and repeat the entire request. Both take time, and negate some of the efficiencies of using speech recognition.
- twothamendment 9y ago"I want some taquitos" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-LGL9iMh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA-LGL9iMh4
- throwmenow_0140 9y ago"Please, hand me a tractor" - Did she say tracker [1]? Something like Rhymezone (searching for similar sounding words) would be a solution. It would still need a human who's deciding which word to choose, but after some time it could learn which words you prefer. [1] https://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=tractor&typeofrhyme=sim https://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=tractor&typeofrhy...
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoOne needs to know your wife to know that "hand me a tractor" is wrong. Perhaps she makes model farms as a hobby, perhaps you work in plant rental and that means "pass me the keys to one of the tractors", the possibilities are endless. You need vision, memory, profiling, etc., to even begin to properly contextualise day-to-day conversation.
- Myrmornis 9y agoHm, I think I disagree with you and GP. The answer is Bayesian inference to both of you isn't it? The prior is going to give very low weight to your domestic partner asking you to "hand them a tractor", despite the fact that it's not impossible that it's the correct words.