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You are being shortsighted and silly. Here are some excellent examples to show you that speech technology could be pretty damn amazing! The first one <strike>co

by cryptoz 16y ago

You are being shortsighted and silly. Here are some excellent examples to show you that speech technology could be pretty damn amazing! The first one <strike>could</strike> will save lives. (While driving) "Should I turn left or right at this intersection?" (While shopping, examining a carton of eggs) "Were these eggs cheaper at the corner store?" (While coding) "Any meetings soon?" ..... Do I need to continue? The applications are endless, assuming it actually works. People have felt stupid in the past because the conversation would go like this: "note to self"....."I said, NOTE TO SELF not NOTICE ELF you fucking idiot machine!" The point is...if Google can do it well, it will take off.

ThomPete 16y ago
Shortsighted perhaps but I don't think he is silly. The problem is about trust. Do I trust the system to give me proper feedback. What if I am yelling because I am stressed, what if it's noisy etc. What if we are two people right next to each other. Abd then there are quite a few mental reasons why voice recognition isn't just going to be a consumer reality, even if/when the technology is there.
- cryptoz 16y ago
  I clearly stated that speech technology would only take off if it works. If you don't trust it, or it can't handle you yelling, then it doesn't work and I agree that it won't take off. I'm curious about the "mental reasons" you hint at. What are those reasons? Do you mean something like Uncanny Valley? Or something else entirely?
  - cracki 16y ago
    you can expect a person to ask if something is unclear. no speech recog system has done that yet. speech recog is orders of magnitude behind humans in accuracy. understanding is another thing entirely. i don't mean philosophy but the problem of even parsing a sentence. just look at implementations of automatic language translation to get a feeling for this problem. speech recog has a long way to go because AI has a long way to go. you don't get human-like machine interaction out of bare speech recog.

by cryptoz 16y ago

ThomPete 16y ago

Shortsighted perhaps but I don't think he is silly. The problem is about trust. Do I trust the system to give me proper feedback. What if I am yelling because I am stressed, what if it's noisy etc. What if we are two people right next to each other. Abd then there are quite a few mental reasons why voice recognition isn't just going to be a consumer reality, even if/when the technology is there.

cryptoz 16y ago
I clearly stated that speech technology would only take off if it works. If you don't trust it, or it can't handle you yelling, then it doesn't work and I agree that it won't take off. I'm curious about the "mental reasons" you hint at. What are those reasons? Do you mean something like Uncanny Valley? Or something else entirely?
- cracki 16y ago
  you can expect a person to ask if something is unclear. no speech recog system has done that yet. speech recog is orders of magnitude behind humans in accuracy. understanding is another thing entirely. i don't mean philosophy but the problem of even parsing a sentence. just look at implementations of automatic language translation to get a feeling for this problem. speech recog has a long way to go because AI has a long way to go. you don't get human-like machine interaction out of bare speech recog.