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> Since then I've thought about voice recognition differently. The AI to understand the context or fill in the blanks is what will make or break it. Of course,

> Since then I've thought about voice recognition differently. The AI to understand the context or fill in the blanks is what will make or break it. Of course, and all humans rely on this as well. No one hears every word perfectly all the time --- it's impossible, because the source person doesn't pronounce every word perfectly all the time. Context clues are a huge part of speech recognition, as well as gestural typing recognition and other forms of machine interpretation of human input. While it's always been a component of NLP, you can clearly see it in action with the Android keyboard these days because after you type two words in a row, the first may be corrected after you enter the second one, based on context provided by the second one.

squeaky-clean 9y ago
This is why I think Google recently saying 95% word accuracy is just as good as a human is wrong. If I ask if you after dinner if you "Want to get a pizza cake", you'll probably quickly realize I mean "piece of cake". Mistakes like that in 1/20 words is a lot. Google is the best of all the big players at figuring out this context (I once asked it what a Dead Left Shrimp was, apparently I was mishearing the name of basketball player Detlef Schrempf), but it will still search for "Pizza Cake" rather than correcting it.
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- MereInterest 9y ago
  Not only that, but even if you were to get 100% word accuracy, context is still important for choosing between multiple possible meanings. As an example, I was being directed by Google Maps to a new place, and I asked it "What is the ETA?" It responded, "From Wikipedia, the estimated time of arrival or ETA is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo or emergency service is expected to arrive at a certain place." It was a completely valid answer to the question, but not one that any human would give.
  - RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 9y ago
    I think you give humans too much credit. If it were so, this joke[0] wouldn't be funny. s/Microsoft/Google/g s/Seattle/Mountain View/g [0] http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-joke.html http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-jo...
  - averagewall 9y ago
    Humans make those mistakes too. Once, while talking to somebody about money, I asked "do you know what inflation is?", meaning what the rate is,to help make a decision, but they were offended and replied that yes, of course they knew what the concept meant. Having a "the" in there like you did should remove ambiguity though. I guess Google Maps defers to Wikipedia when it doesn't know what a term means.
- Swizec 9y ago
  Have you ever considered that pizza cake is delicious? I don’t know about you, but I wanna try this: https://g.co/kgs/4D4er9 https://g.co/kgs/4D4er9
nradov 9y ago
That Gboard "feature" is extremely annoying because it's almost always wrong. This is another case where artificial intelligence ends up being worse than no intelligence.

squeaky-clean 9y ago

This is why I think Google recently saying 95% word accuracy is just as good as a human is wrong. If I ask if you after dinner if you "Want to get a pizza cake", you'll probably quickly realize I mean "piece of cake". Mistakes like that in 1/20 words is a lot. Google is the best of all the big players at figuring out this context (I once asked it what a Dead Left Shrimp was, apparently I was mishearing the name of basketball player Detlef Schrempf), but it will still search for "Pizza Cake" rather than correcting it.

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MereInterest 9y ago
Not only that, but even if you were to get 100% word accuracy, context is still important for choosing between multiple possible meanings. As an example, I was being directed by Google Maps to a new place, and I asked it "What is the ETA?" It responded, "From Wikipedia, the estimated time of arrival or ETA is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo or emergency service is expected to arrive at a certain place." It was a completely valid answer to the question, but not one that any human would give.
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 9y ago
  I think you give humans too much credit. If it were so, this joke[0] wouldn't be funny. s/Microsoft/Google/g s/Seattle/Mountain View/g [0] http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-joke.html http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-jo...
- averagewall 9y ago
  Humans make those mistakes too. Once, while talking to somebody about money, I asked "do you know what inflation is?", meaning what the rate is,to help make a decision, but they were offended and replied that yes, of course they knew what the concept meant. Having a "the" in there like you did should remove ambiguity though. I guess Google Maps defers to Wikipedia when it doesn't know what a term means.
Swizec 9y ago
Have you ever considered that pizza cake is delicious? I don’t know about you, but I wanna try this: https://g.co/kgs/4D4er9 https://g.co/kgs/4D4er9

nradov 9y ago

That Gboard "feature" is extremely annoying because it's almost always wrong. This is another case where artificial intelligence ends up being worse than no intelligence.