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Given how well cough the assistant has been able to cope with accents in English (it hasn't very well at all) it will be interesting to see how well this works

Given how well cough the assistant has been able to cope with accents in English (it hasn't very well at all) it will be interesting to see how well this works in practice.

AntonyGarand 9y ago
That's a surprise for me, I'm not a native speaker and in both French and English, it has done a great job at understanding my accents.
- robteix 9y ago
  Same here. I find the Google Assistant's voice recognition very near perfect. I'm not a native english speaker but I would think that would make it harder than easier.
whoisjuan 9y ago
Accents are a hard problem in voice recognition. If your accent is weirdly unique (like mine) there's already a deviation from the baseline data used to train those models. That being said, I feel both G.Assistant, and Alexa both interpret what I'm saying most of the times. In contrast, Siri rarely understands me well. When I set up reminders, 95% of the times Siri fails to comprehend me correctly. I don't know what they are doing at Apple, but you would think they would have nailed this already (with the millions of Siri capable devices they have sold already).
- ridgeguy 9y ago
  A question from ignorance (I don't have any of these devices), but couldn't the weirdly unique accent problem be solved by reading a list of standard vocabulary words a few times to the device while training for accuracy?
ariwilson 9y ago
What do accents have to do with foreign language recognition?
- tintor 9y ago
  Speech recognition of English speakers with different foreign accents
- alphydan 9y ago
  Also, most languages have a wide diversity of accents. Spanish, for instance, has 18 dialects just in Spain (plus the latin american ones).
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theDoug 9y ago
Albeit from May last year, I thought this video showed capability with accents in English quite well compared to other smart devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNx0huL9qsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNx0huL9qsQ Happy to hear about more recent tests or counter examples! (Disclosure: I work at Google, my Google Home tends to get my Canadian English pretty well)

Given how well cough the assistant has been able to cope with accents in English (it hasn't very well at all) it will be interesting to see how well this works in practice.

AntonyGarand 9y ago

That's a surprise for me, I'm not a native speaker and in both French and English, it has done a great job at understanding my accents.

robteix 9y ago
Same here. I find the Google Assistant's voice recognition very near perfect. I'm not a native english speaker but I would think that would make it harder than easier.

whoisjuan 9y ago

Accents are a hard problem in voice recognition. If your accent is weirdly unique (like mine) there's already a deviation from the baseline data used to train those models. That being said, I feel both G.Assistant, and Alexa both interpret what I'm saying most of the times. In contrast, Siri rarely understands me well. When I set up reminders, 95% of the times Siri fails to comprehend me correctly. I don't know what they are doing at Apple, but you would think they would have nailed this already (with the millions of Siri capable devices they have sold already).

ridgeguy 9y ago
A question from ignorance (I don't have any of these devices), but couldn't the weirdly unique accent problem be solved by reading a list of standard vocabulary words a few times to the device while training for accuracy?

ariwilson 9y ago

What do accents have to do with foreign language recognition?

tintor 9y ago
Speech recognition of English speakers with different foreign accents
alphydan 9y ago
Also, most languages have a wide diversity of accents. Spanish, for instance, has 18 dialects just in Spain (plus the latin american ones).

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theDoug 9y ago

Albeit from May last year, I thought this video showed capability with accents in English quite well compared to other smart devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNx0huL9qsQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNx0huL9qsQ Happy to hear about more recent tests or counter examples! (Disclosure: I work at Google, my Google Home tends to get my Canadian English pretty well)