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I thought speech recognition was still very inaccurate & hasn't improved much in the last 5-10 years. Has it suddenly become usable?

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• rbarooah 16y ago
  Not for me in this case. Every sentence I tried was mangled in the traditional way: Once upon a time in america -> ants on a time in america The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat. -> the owl and pussycat when to see in a beautiful p cream Google is not evil -> google is evil I'm not joking about that last one.
  • cypherdog 16y ago
    I tried your sentence "The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat" and got "seattle hookers gatwick to see a beautiful pizza ri boat". You win.
    • rbarooah 16y ago
      Actually I think you win!
• reddot 16y ago
  Speech recognition has steadily improved over the past 10 years. You can see a few examples: Android system wide speech input, Siri iPhone app (which Apple bought), Dragon Naturally Speaking advertises upwards of 99% accuracy for general purpose dictation, and the latest speech recognition IVRs do pretty darn well; try calling Amtrak or United. If you try to dick around with it, have a strong accent, or are in a noisy environment, you won't get (as) good results. However, as a whole, it's greatly improved.