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I am a native English speaker from California. It is hard to get my Google Personal Assistant to understand the difference between desert and dessert. It's al
by amorphid 9y ago
I am a native English speaker from California. It is hard to get my Google Personal Assistant to understand the difference between desert and dessert. It's also hard to request music by an artist with name similar to another artist.
"Hey Google, play Mika radio" has a 50/50 chance of starting music by Meiko. The additional "problem" is that I like Meiko, too, but I feel obligated to cancel the Meiko music & re-request Mika so that Google (hopefully) learns to recognize the difference between Mika and Meiko.
Maybe our spoken language will start to transform into distinctly unique sounds so we can verbally interact with computers with relative ease. When I was in the US Army, I was trained to speak in a certain manner to help my communication to be more clear. [1] I don't see a reason humans and computers can't each make reasonable compromises to make verbal communication easier.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_procedure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_procedure