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Personally, I'm considering getting an Echo or Google device simply to help contribute to turning "voice as the user interface" into a solved problem. We've th
by melling 9y ago
Personally, I'm considering getting an Echo or Google device simply to help contribute to turning "voice as the user interface" into a solved problem.
We've thought we were close for 50 years. Siri was cool for a couple years but I want to move beyond the 5 year old.
For those who truly hate these solutions, Mozilla is crowd sourcing a solution. Perhaps it will help to get us there.
https://voice.mozilla.org https://voice.mozilla.org
Once the problem is solved, we can move it completely offline. For now, I'm excited that Google and Amazon have turned this into a race.
- icc97 9y agoI tried the Mozilla voice recognition through the Firefox addon. It was unusable, the recognition of words was very poor. I really want an open source version, but there's not much point if it is not usable.